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Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 58 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The pastor of an all-white Lutheran church in Omaha, Nebraska tries to get his congregation to reach out to their fellow black Lutherans, only to find a wall of resistance among his church.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results.
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
In this audacious debut feature, Joao Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam, an Indigenous Black man from the rural North, moves to an industrialized Southern town populated by the descendants of Austrian ex-pats to work in a milk factory. Immediately confronted with their virulent racism, he becomes more and more estranged from the white world. Upon discovering an abandoned house...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"When Daisy Werthan, a widowed, 72-year-old Jewish woman living in midcentury Atlanta, is deemed too old to drive, her son hires Hoke Colburn, an African American man, to serve as her chauffeur. What begins as a troubled and hostile pairing, soon blossoms into a profound, life-altering friendship that transcends all the societal boundaries placed between them. This iconic tale of pride, changing times, and the transformative power of friendship has...
5) Disgrace
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Professor David Lurie is a man whose world is shattered when he is fired for seducing a college student. He finds peace at his estranged daughter's modest farm in South Africa until a horrific incident of terror and violence forces Lurie to confront his beliefs and the disturbing racial complexities of the new South Africa.
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1997, actor Morgan Freeman, a resident of the small town of Charleston, Miss., offered to pay for the senior prom at Charleston High School under one condition: the prom must be racially integrated. His offer was ignored. In 2008 he offered again, and the offer was accepted, changing the tradition of two separate proms for blacks and whites that had endured since the high school was integrated in 1970. Shows the problems and lessons learned as...
Author
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (15 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (218 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
America's Long Struggle against Slavery is a chance to survey the history of the American anti-slavery movement, from the dawn of the transatlantic slave trade during the late 15th century to the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and beyond. Taught by Professor Richard Bell of the University of Maryland, these 30 eye-opening lectures give an up-close view of a venal institution and the people who fought against it, and who often paid for their courage...
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (55 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Clinton High was the first school in Tennessee to desegregate -- an experience that led to chaos and violence. This program reports on the town's efforts in 1957 to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court's mandate in the face of coercive opposition. Footage of the Rev. Paul W. Turner preaching brotherhood and John Kasper expounding in his rhetoric of intolerance creates a vivid portrait of the times. Other individuals add their views, rounding out the...
Publisher
Milestone
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Down in the lush backwoods of Mississippi and Alabama, history is being made. Poor Black and White working people are trying to overcome the forces of racism among themselves to organize into cooperative associations to dispel the bonds of their economic captors the paper and pulpwood companies. In his unique Woodcutters of the Deep South (1973), Lionel Rogosin (On the Bowery) allows the people in the film to tell and live their own stories. We see...
Series
Publisher
Schlessinger Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (23 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 teacher's guide.
Language
English
Description
"Not that long ago, African Americans were denied basic rights and opportunities in the United States, but one man's work and dedication helped change the future for our country - not just for African Americans, but for all Americans. In Martin Luther King, Jr., kids will take an in-depth look at the life of this civil rights leader and learn about his commitment to nonviolence in the pursuit of social change. From his days as a minister in Alabama...
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A frustrated teacher in a southern town, whose education is being underutilized, finds his own purpose in helping bring meaning to the last days of a young man due to be executed. In teaching one person to die with dignity, he redeems himself.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The Black power mixtape 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them the filmmakers captured them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews. Thirty years later, this lush collection was found...
13) Rosewood
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of the 1923 razing of a black town in Florida, many of its people murdered over a lie. But some escaped and survived because of the courage and compassion of a few extraordinary people.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, black and white. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A black preacher returns home to rural Georgia to claim an inheritance and bring down the ruthless plantation owner that he once served. He finds a surprise ally in the plantation owner's son.
15) White wash
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Although surfing originated in Hawaii as part of Polynesian culture, Americans adopted a blonde-haired, blue-eyed male surfer cliche that still dominates today. The role of black surfers is explored by introducing audiences to the likes of Michael Green, Rick Blocker, Sal Maselka, and Dr. Charles Ross. These guests recount their personal journey, while discussing surf history, its origin and revolution, all the while preserving the love of catching...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lily Owens is a young girl who lives on the peach farm that her abusive father owns. Rosaleen is a black woman hired by Lily's father to be a stand in mother for Lilly. Rosaleen insults some of the biggest racists in their town. Lily and Rosaleen run away to a town Lily believes that her mother once lived in. They go to live with the three Boatwright sisters on their honey farm. She finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping.
Publisher
Monterey
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The sky is gray is based on a work by Ernest J. Gaines. In rural Louisiana in the 1940's a young black boy journeys with his mother and absorbs valuable lessons of pride, charity and dignity.
Almos' a man is based on a work by Richard Wright. A black teenage farm worker believes that owning a gun is a mark of maturity.
18) Color adjustment
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An analysis of the portrayal of African-Americans on American television from 1948-1988. Argues that earlier images were outright racist, and that later images have been overly biased towards prosperous blacks.
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (168 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Challenges one of our most fundamental beliefs that human beings come divided into a few distinct groups. A look at why race is not biologically meaningful yet nonetheless very real.
20) Love Field
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lurene Hallett, a Dallas housewife obsessed with the lives of John and Jacqueline Kennedy, sets out by bus to attend the funeral of the president. Along the way she befriends an African American man and his daughter. Lurene's well intentioned meddling causes the three to flee the police and her husband on their way to Washington.
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