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Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A radical student feels that he has been betrayed by the college association to which he belongs, and thinks more violent actions must be taken in order to alter the existing system.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 175 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wild in the streets: When 15 year olds are given the right to vote, they elect a rock star as president and take over the government enforcing mandatory retirement at age 30.
Gas-s-s-s: A deadly gas kills everyone over the age of 25 leaving the earth to a variety of young football fascists and demented dictators and utopia searching hippies.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In response to the turmoil in Cairo, Frontline presents a special edition of its new newsmagazine-format program, Revolution in Cairo, about the demonstrations and political unrest on the streets of Cairo. This program contains graphic imagery and descriptions of police abuse. Viewer discretion is advised.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
All eyes are focused on the Vatican, hoping to see the puffs of white smoke signaling the selection of the next Pope, but this time, much more is at stake, for the new pontiff may be the only person who can bring peace to a world on the brink of nuclear war.
Publisher
Indican Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is a vivid and engaged docu-celebration of the LGBT rights movement from the partial victory of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act to Stonewall, the Gay Liberation Front, the AIDS crisis, Legal Marriage, and finally the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting. The film gives an extensive history of the course of LGBTQIA+ rights campaigning, but, more importantly, also shows how much more work there is to be done.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Napoleon is a new kind of hero, complete with a tight red 'fro, sweet moon boots, and skills that can't be topped. Napoleon spends his days drawing mythical beasts, duking it out with his older brother, Kip, and trying to avoid his scheming Uncle Rico. When two new friends enter Napolean's life - shy Deb and mustachioed Pedro - the trio launches a campaign to elect Pedro for class president and make the student body's wildest dreams come true. But...
8) Cousin Bobby
Publisher
Cinevista
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
1 video cassette (70 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
The documentary follows a defiant movement of women of color as they transform politics from the ground up. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm elections, the series follows organizers and candidates (including Rashida Tlaib and Stacey Abrams) as they fight for a truly reflective government, asking whether democracy can be preserved, and made stronger, by those most marginalized.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is an exploration of the world-changing activism and potential of the largest youth generation in history. The film shows examples of young leaders working to revolutionize systems that have failed their generation. It paints a powerful and hopeful picture of how today's youth can solve global political and environmental crises
11) Finding Fela
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti created a new musical movement, Afrobeat, a combination of jazz, funk, and Nigerian percussion styles. It was also a political force, a propulsive delivery system of Fela's revolutionary ideas, pitched against the dictatorial Nigerian government of the 1970s and 1980s. His influence helped bring a tilt towards democracy in Nigeria and promoted Pan-Africanist politics to the world. The power and potency of Fela's music and message...
12) The brink
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows Steve Bannon through the 2018 midterm elections in the United States, shedding light on his efforts to mobilize and unify far-right parties in order to win seats in the May 2019 European Parliamentary elections. Keen manipulator of the press and gifted self-promoter, Bannon continues to draw headlines and protests wherever he goes, feeding the powerful myth on which his survival relies.
Publisher
Just Vision
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (59 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
Naila and the Uprising chronicle the remarkable real-life journey of Naila Ayesh, a key figure in the First Intifada, which forced the world to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination for the first time.
14) The gatekeepers
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
עברית
Description
Charged with overeseeing Israel's war on terror, both Palestinian and Jewish, the head of the Shin Bet, Israel's Secret Service, is present at the crossroads for every decision made. This documentary features interviews with six former heads of the agency who have agreed to share their insights and reflect publicly on their actions and decisions. The Gatekeepers offers and exclusive account of the sum of their successes and failures. It validates...
16) Politics
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (73 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a widow's daughter gets involved with a young mobster who has been framed for murder, she decides to run for mayor in order to initiate change within her town including encouraging women to stop taking care of their husbands if they don't vote for her.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Looks at Muhammad Ali's historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the U.S. judicial system right up to the highest court in the land.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Anders Østergaard brings us close to the video journalists who deliver the footage. Though risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as they insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country. Armed with small handycams the Burma VJs stop at nothing to make their reportages from the streets of Rangoon. Their material is smuggled out of the country and broadcast back...
19) Get on the bus
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows a group of different men traveling from Los Angeles to the Million Man March in Washington, D.C. They board the bus as strangers but emerge three days and thousands of miles later as brothers.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines the women's movement from Hilary Clinton's 2016 presidential bid through the first woman of color to appear on a major party ticket in 2020. Highlights include the 2017 Women's March, the fall of Harvey Weinstein, the birth of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, and the convergence of feminism and racial justice in Black Lives Matter.
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