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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.
2) Selma
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
4) Fences
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
A black garbage collector named Troy Maxson in 1950s Pittsburgh is bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues, Maxson is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
6) 96 minutes
Publisher
ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The intense story of four lives slammed together after a terrifying carjacking. The story intercuts between a carjacking and the separate stories of four young people, Carley, Dre, Lena, and Kevin. Their worlds are starkly divided along class lines, but they end up in the same car on this fateful night.
Series
Description
Free spirited ex-G.I. and unemployed construction worker Homer Smith stops at a remote farm in the Arizona desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of German refugee Catholic nuns, headed by the strict Mother Maria, who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much-needed church in the desert.
8) Grand Canyon
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"When a lawyer's car breaks down in a dangerous Los Angeles neighborhood, a tow-truck driver arrives just in time to save his life. The two men begin a deep friendship that sets off a chain of unsettling and surprising events involving their families and friends for years to come"--Container.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
Publisher
Distributed by Xenon Pictures
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatic biography of Rosa McCauley Parks, who in 1955 created the spark that began the modern Civil Rights Movement. Her refusal to obey racial bus segregation was just one of her acts in her fight for justice.
11) No way out
Series
Fox film noir volume 13
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a young African-American doctor operates on two white brothers brought in for gunshot wounds, it sets off a chain of violent confrontations between a vicious psychopath, his gang and the black community. Includes original theatrical trailer.
12) Hairspray
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tracy Turnblad, a teenager with huge hair, a big grin, and all the right moves, becomes the queen of Baltimore's number one dance revue.
13) The Sapphires
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story, four young Aboriginal Australian women become a singing sensation with the help of an Irish talent scout and go to Vietnam in 1968 to entertain the troops.
14) Love Field
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lurene Hallett, a Dallas housewife obsessed with the lives of John and Jacqueline Kennedy, sets out by bus to attend the funeral of the president. Along the way she befriends an African American man and his daughter. Lurene's well intentioned meddling causes the three to flee the police and her husband on their way to Washington.
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?], c1991
Physical Desc
1 DVD (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results.
16) Wassup rockers
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The controversial subject of teens and race in L.A., focusing the attention on a crew of Latino skate punks from the ghetto neighborhood of South Central.
17) Cry freedom
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (158 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of the friendship between black activist Stephen Biko and white newspaper editor Donald Woods, who was instrumental in bringing Biko's anti-apartheid message to the international community.
18) 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.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 324 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Zane Malik is a young detective at the Major Crime Squad in Sydney, Australia. He's also a Muslim, in a post-9/11 world where such an identity automatically arouses suspicion and fear. He's a good husband and father and a dedicated cop with one main problem on the job: Detective Sergeant Ray Crowley. Crowley's an old school policeman for whom rules and regulations play a poor second to getting results.
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