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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kunta Kinte and Fiddler lead desperate runaways through a network of safe havens to a getaway boat. They load the runaways into the boat ... but there's room for one more passenger. A choice must be made; a Mandinka warrior can never abandon his friend.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1864: As war ravages the nation, on the outskirts of the Civil War, it is business as usual for slave-owners and traders. Will is a fatherless thirteen-year-old boy who survives by working with a white bounty hunter gang. They send him to earn the trust of runaway slaves in order to lure them back to the south. On a dangerous mission into the free north to find Nate, a fugitive freedman, things go wrong, and Will and Nate find themselves on the run....
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eager to flee from his drunken father and the confining life with Widow Douglass and Miss Watson, Huck sets off on a raft down the Mississippi with Jim, a runaway slave, in tow.
4) Freedom
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two men separated by 100 years are united in their search for freedom. In 1856 a slave Samuel Woodward and his family, escape from the Monroe Plantation. The Underground Railroad guide the family on their journey north to Canada. 100 years earlier in 1748 the Captain of a slave trader sails from Africa with a cargo of slaves bound for America. On board is Samuel's great grandfather whose survival is tied to the fate of the Captain. The Captain creates...
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Huck Finn, a 19th-century boy floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with Jim, a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom.
Publisher
Sweet Blackberry LLC
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 28 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
" . . . takes a magical look at the historic true tale of slave Henry Box Brown, a man who mailed himself to freedom in a wooden box from a plantation in Richmond, Virginia to freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1848 . . . . With the help of characters including Bird, Horse, Cricket and Cat, Henry avoids being discovered and makes his way to freedom. While on his dangerous and exciting journey, Henry shares what freedom means to him and why slavery...
Series
Reading rainbow volume 96
Publisher
GPN Educational Media
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 30 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad by following directions in a song "The drinking gourd". Other segments include: LeVar talks about slavery: LeVar introduces students to the history, heroes, stories, and music of the African American culture which emerged from slavery ; Songs about slavery: the a capella group, Sweet Honey in the Rock, perform and share their historical knowledge of slavery.
8) Emperor
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the legend of Shields 'Emperor' Green, a descendant of African kings turned outlaw slave in the pre-Civil War South. Seeking freedom for his family, Emperor fights his way north, joining the daring raid on Harper's Ferry and helping alter the course of American history.
Publisher
Showtime Networks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 335 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story is told from the point of view of "Onion," a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown's motley family of abolitionist soldiers battling slavery in Kansas, and eventually finds himself in the famous 1859 Army depot raid at Harpers Ferry, an inciting incident of the Civil War. It's a tale of Antebellum America and the ever-changing roles of race, religion and gender in American society.
10) Aferim!
Publisher
Big World Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Romanian
Formats
Description
Set in early nineteenth century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Definitive edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (115 min.) : silent, black and white (tinted) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Eliza is a slave who flees a Kentucky plantation after her son and a dignified father figure, Uncle Tom, are sold to a rival landowner. Her Dickensian quest eventually places her in the backwater kingdom of the sadistic Simon Legree. But the film's most memorable sequence is Eliza's flight to freedom across a treacherous ice floe (a staple of the many stage productions, which D.W. Griffith shamelessly appropriated for his 1920 film Way Down East)....
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