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1) Mandingo
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On a decrepit southern plantation, the white owners use their slaves for sex and profit.
Publisher
Manufactured and distributed by Sony Wonder
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miss Jane Pittman is celebrating her 110th birthday. As the civil rights movement heats up, Miss Jane, a former slave, recounts her memories of the black experience from picking potatoes on a southern plantation to fetching water for soldiers in the Civil War to her views on the current and turbulent equal rights movement.
5) Beloved
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (171 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe & Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen.
Publisher
Sony Wonder
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the life an African American woman from Louisiana, from the time of her childhood as a slave in the pre-Civil War South to 1962, when she witnesses the birth of the civil rights movement at the age of one hundred and ten.
7) Roots
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (383 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil war. Based on Alex Haley₂s best-selling novel which has resonated with millions of Americans, it reveals powerful, universal truths about the resilience of the human spirit.
8) Antebellum
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
Successful author Veronica Henley is finishing a book tour before she returns home to her husband and daughter. But a shocking turn of events is about to upend Veronica's existence, plunging her into a horrifying reality that forces her to confront her past, present, and future-before it's too late.
9) Roots
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, Llc
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 6 hrs., 29 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil war. Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel which has resonated with millions of Americans, it reveals powerful, universal truths about the resilience of the human spirit.
10) Roots
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's Roots, in which he traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors was captured and sold into slavery. Follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boys' abduction to America and continues throughout the generations that follow.
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