Ossie Davis
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.
2) Dinosaur
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dinosaur tells the story of Aladar, an iguanodon who is separated from his own kind and raised by a clan of lemurs. When a meteor shower destroys their home, Aladar and his family follow a herd of dinosaurs heading for the safety of the "nesting grounds." Together they must stand strong amidst food and water shortages, the threat of Carnotaur attacks, and Aladar's run-ins with the herd's stubborn leader, Kron.
3) Bubba Ho-tep
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When mysterious deaths plague the Shady Rest retirement home, it's up to an aging, cantankerous Elvis, and a decrepit and black JFK, to defeat a 3,000-year-old-Egyptian mummy with a penchant for sucking human souls.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Adam, a brilliant trumpet player, is burdened with guilt following a car accident in which his wife and child were killed. He finds happiness briefly with another woman but turns to drink and is wrongly convicted as a drug-addict when arrested after a drunken brawl. Desperate for money, his agent books him a series of one-night stands and one night, while playing a farewell number with the band, Adam collapses. The audience believe him to be drunk...
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
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.
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (165 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 1/2 in.
Description
The River Niger: A house-painter/poet struggles to support his cancer-plagued wife. Death of a prophet: Combines documentary footage with reenactments to weave a fascinating work. A suspense thriller which follows the events in the final 24 hours of the life of religious and political leader Malcolm X.
9) Dr. Dolittle
Publisher
Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A doctor finds out he can understand what animals are saying. When the animals find out, his world is turned upside down.
10) Dinosaur
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (ca. 82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dinosaur tells the story of Aladar, an iguanodon who is separated from his own kind and raised by a clan of lemurs. When a meteor shower destroys their home, Aladar and his family follow a herd of dinosaurs heading for the safety of the "nesting grounds." Together they must stand strong amidst food and water shortages, the threat of Carnotaur attacks, and Aladar's run-ins with the herd's stubborn leader, Kron.
11) Miss Evers' boys
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.
12) Thomas Jefferson
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (3 hrs.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the life of Thomas Jefferson.
Formats
Description
Follows the follies of a stressed-out guy in a dead-end job who is told he has a terminal "brain cloud." A zany jillionaire then makes him an offer that gives him a fleeting taste of the good life. In exchange, he must journey to a Pacific Island and leap into a volcano. Is Joe doomed to be the last of the red-hot lovers? Not if the forces of imagination, romantic comedy, and the charm of Ryan in 3 roles as the women in Joe's life have their way.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 205 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Grumpy old men: neighborhood curmudgeons' long-running feud becomes an all-out rivalry when an attractive widow moves into the house across the street.
Grumpier old men: grumpy old men become grumpier in this sequel as a newcomer (Sophia Loren) plans to change the town's bait shop into a ristorante.
15) The Hill
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the Libyan Desert during World War II, British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up "The Hill," a manmade instrument of torture--a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun, in this military prison drama.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (ca. 204 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Description
Grumpy old men. Neighborhood curmudgeons' long-running feud becomes an all-out rivalry when an attractive widow moves into the house across the street.
Grumpier old men. Grumpy old men become grumpier in this sequel as a newcomer plans to change the town's bait shop into a restaurant.
17) 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...
18) Dinosaur
Publisher
Disney Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dinosaur tells the story of Aladar, an iguanodon who is separated from his own kind and raised by a clan of lemurs. When a meteor shower destroys their home, Aladar and his family follow a herd of dinosaurs heading for the safety of the "nesting grounds." Together they must stand strong amidst food and water shortages, the threat of Carnotaur attacks, and Aladar's run-ins with the herd's stubborn leader, Kron.
19) Malcolm X
Series
Criterion collection volume 1160
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 blu-rays (201 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The life of Malcolm X, the black activist who became a Muslim and was a leader in the Nation of Islam until his assassination. Special features include: 10 additional scenes, the Academy Award-nominated documentary Malcolm X, and more.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America—and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry upke a raisin in the sun."