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Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Traces the course of a single day on a block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. It's the hottest day of the year, a scorching 24-hour period that will change the lives of its residents forever.
22) Disgrace
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010], c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Professor David Lurie is a man whose world is shattered when he is fired for seducing a college student. He finds peace at his estranged daughter's modest farm in South Africa until a horrific incident of terror and violence forces Lurie to confront his beliefs and the disturbing racial complexities of the new South Africa.
23) Till
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.
24) The tracker
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1922 in the outback, the story follows three mounted policemen and an Aboriginal tracker on a mission to bring to justice a black man accused of murdering a white woman. The party's leader is a sadistic racist known simply as the Fanatic. Their guide, the Tracker, is a resourceful and complex character, who keeps everyone guessing until the end. They are constantly half a day behind the Fugitive. Frustrations spill over as the tension mounts....
25) Glory road
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Don Haskins, a future Hall of Fame coach of tiny Texas Western University, bucks convention by simply starting the best players he can find: history's first all-African American lineup.
26) Rosewood
Publisher
Warner Home video
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
1 DVD (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1923 a black town in Florida was burned to the ground, its people murdered because of a lie. Some escaped and survived because of the courage and compassion of a few extraordinary people.
27) Skin
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Despite being born to Afrikaner parents, Sandra faces prejudice from her community due to her dark skin and African features. Torn between her family and the man she loves, Sandra must overcome the racial intolerance of her society in this uplifting true story.
28) Native son
Author
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1940's Chicago, a young black man's life takes a tragic turn after he accidentally kills the daughter of his white employer and then tries to cover it up.
Series
Criterion collection volume 767
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet.
Description
A Pakistani and a young white man from South London take over a laundrette and convert it into an upscale place.
30) Memory house
Publisher
Film Movement
Formats
Description
In this audacious debut feature, João Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam (played by Cinema Novo icon Antônio Pitanga), an Indigenous Black man from the rural North, moves to an industrialized Southern town populated by the descendants of Austrian ex-pats to work in a milk factory. Immediately confronted with their virulent racism, he becomes more and more estranged from the...
31) Heavens fall
Publisher
Allumination Filmworks
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A tragic true story of nine black men who were pulled off an Alabama freight train and accused of raping two young white women, quickly tried, and sentenced to the electric chair. Forcing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, a lone man defends them.
Series
Criterion collection volume 198
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.
33) Sapphire
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A beautiful female college student is found dead in a public park; the police soon discover that her murder may have been racially motivated.
34) Black or white
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a grandfather who is suddenly left to care for his beloved granddaughter, but when her paternal grandmother seeks custody with the help of her brother, the little girl is torn between two families who love her deeply. With the best intentions at heart, both families fight for what they feel is right and are soon forced to confront their true feelings about race, forgiveness, and understanding.
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After two African American twenty-somethings have a one-night stand, they spend the following day discussing sex, race, bicycles, modern urban life, and the challenge of being a minority in a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco.
36) End of watch
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel, during a routine traffic stop.
37) Edge of the city
Series
Sidney Poitier collection volume disc 1
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
If you need a job Charlie Malik can find a spot for you in the dockside railyards. All he needs in return is that you show up on time, work hard, and kick back part of your pay. Two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, an Army deserter, and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going freight car loader, join forces against a corrupt New York waterfront union official. The two share a bond that cuts across society's black/white divide.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1965, during the turbulent early days of the right-to-vote movement. The story of a young schoolgirl in Selma, Alabama, who is inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to resist the degradation that her fellow African-Americans are suffering.
Series
Criterion collection volume 767
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Pakistani and a young white man from South London take over a laundrette and convert it into an upscale place.
40) Freedomland
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As a housing project cop who's respected for keeping the peace and being fair with the residents, Lorenzo Council stumbles onto the case of an apparent carjacking and child abduction one night that throws the projects into turmoil. But there's something strange in the details Brenda Martin slowly brings to light regarding her abductor and her missing child. The criminal investigation into the alleged kidnapping ignites long-simmering racial tension...
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