Ruby Dee
Series
Criterion collection volume 97
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
During the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, racial tensions are quickly inflamed and violence ensues.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (128 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.
4) Just cause
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Description
A Harvard law school professor reopens a murder investigation on behalf of a death row inmate who claims he was forced by a sinister lawman to confess to a crime he didn't commit. On the surface, it seems to be a straight-ahead case of the prisoner's guilt or innocence. But nothing really lies on the surface of this mystery, set in the Florida swamplands.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1140
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented. Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power–era political fury, Poitier and a marvelously mischievous Harry Belafonte star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous, pistol-packing “preacher,” who join forces in order...
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.
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.
8) The stand
Formats
Description
Originally aired as a television mini-series, this all-star filmization of Stephen King's gripping epic of good versus evil chronicles the adventures of a disparate group of people who struggle to reestablish civilization after a man-made catastrophe wipes out most of the world's population. The world abruptly ends when a deadly virus accidentally escapes from a government sponsored biological warfare laboratory. Soon people are dropping like flies...
Series
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD, double sided (ca. 128 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Film of the award-winning play about a struggling black family living on Chicago's South Side and the impact of an unexpected insurance bequest. Each family member sees the bequest as the means of realizing dreams and of escape from grinding frustrations.
Series
Criterion collection volume 945
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 128 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Film of the award-winning play about a struggling black family living on Chicago's South Side and the impact of an unexpected insurance bequest. Each family member sees the bequest as the means of realizing dreams and of escape from grinding frustrations.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Tensions are growing, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie is Sal's delivery boy. Radio Raheem has the letters of love and hate written on his hands. He is defiant and together with a motivated Buggin Out, push Sal and his sons to their breaking point. The cops intervene, using force and brutality to apprehend the large...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 284 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Beloved: On a journey to find freedom, Sethe is confronted by the secrets that have haunted her for years. Then, an old friend from out of her past reenters her life. With his help, Sethe may finally be able to rediscover who she is and regain her lost sense of hope.
Their eyes were watching God: A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the mores...
13) Dessa Rose
Author
Description
In 1829, a pregnant woman is condemned to die for a murderous act of rebellion. Meanwhile, in North Carolina, a woman is accused of giving sanctuary to runaway slaves. Dessa Rose is the heartwarming story of an extraordinary friendship between two strong, remarkable women from very different backgrounds, both caught in the shadow of slavery in the 19th-century South. One is an escaped Black slave under sentence of death; the other is a white woman...