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Publisher
Comedy Partners
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (286 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
PB & J. Milk and Cookies. Serial Killers and Showers. Some things just go together; like sketch masters Key & Peele. They and their characters are back and bringing their honest, unvarnished and always brilliantly funny take on pop culture, race and society. From returning faves (substitute teacher!) to fresh material (paintboobs!), this is one perfect pair.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A frustrated teacher in a southern town, whose education is being underutilized, finds his own purpose in helping bring meaning to the last days of a young man due to be executed. In teaching one person to die with dignity, he redeems himself.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The protagonist of this metaphysical fable is Rannulph Junah, Southern aristocrat and World War I hero. In a tournament in Savannah, he defeats two golf pros by following the teachings of his guru, Bagger Vance, a black mystic serving as his caddie.
4) Moonlight
Formats
Description
A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and became the head of the local chapter.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1932, Nurse Eunice Evers is invited to work with doctors on the "Tuskegee Experiment" to study the effects of syphilis. She is faced with a terrible dilemma when she learns the patients are denied treatment that could cure them.
7) Tyrel
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man joins his friend on a trip for a weekend birthday party with a bunch of other men he doesn't know and discovers that he is the only black guy in the group.
Series
Criterion collection volume 963
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harry, a devilish charmer, turns up out of the blue on the South Central Los Angeles doorstep of his old friends. In short order, Harry's presence turns a seemingly peaceful household upside down, exposing smoldering tensions between parents and children, tradition and change, virtue and temptation. Interweaving evocative strains of gospel and blues with rich, poetic-realist images, it is a sublimely stirring film from an autonomous artistic sensibility,...
9) Good hair
Publisher
Roadside Attractions
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Comedian Chris Rock tackles the very personal issue of hair, and how attaining "good hair" can impact African American's activities, relationships, wallets, and a self-esteem. Engages in frank, funny conversations with haircare professionals, beautyshop and barbershop patrons, as well as featuring interviews with Dr. Maya Angelou, Nia Long, Ice-T, Raven Symone, and more.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Atlanta in the 1950's, a textile factory owner insists on hiring an ever-patient chauffeur for his aging head-strong mother. The Jewish woman and her African American driver eventually build a relationship over many years.
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches
Description
Mike Anderson is a senior at the quintessential New-England liberal arts school, Frost College. And Mike is eight weeks away from graduation. On this particular day he has his African-American literature class with his favorite professor. But today, Mike is feeling sadness. He's feeling isolated. He's feeling angry.
13) Drylongso
Series
Criterion collection volume 1190
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
A rediscovered treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith's Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying, brash Oakland art student Pica attempts to preserve their existence in Polaroid snapshots, along the way forging a friendship with a woman in an abusive relationship and experiencing love, heartbreak,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1135
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Easy Rawlins, a tough World War II veteran and detective, is hired by a financier and gangster to locate Daphne Monet, a search that leads him from elegant boardrooms to the raucous jazz joints of late 1940s Los Angeles.
Author
Series
Criterion collection volume 1209
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Formats
Description
"A southern Black railroad worker confronts the daily challenges of discrimination and economic precarity as he attempts to settle down with his new wife and track down his father"--
Publisher
Question Why Films
Pub. Date
2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A documentary examining the life of Bayard Rustin who, although one of the first "freedom riders," an adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and A. Philip Randolph, and an organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, was forced to play a background role in landmark civil rights events because he was homosexual.
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