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Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After an avowed racist murders nine black churchgoers in South Carolina, battle lines are drawn in Mississippi to determine the fate of the state flag with the most powerful and divisive symbol of the Confederacy.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (42 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Directed by Oscar-nominated and NAACP Image Award winner David Massey, this dynamic documentary features legal experts, local activists, and law enforcement officers delving into ongoing charges of inequality, unfair practices, and politicized manipulations of America's judicial system. Additionally, the Black Lives Matter movement and citizens nationwide question the staggering number of police shootings of unarmed Black men and women.
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting inside look at the bold work of the group Life After Hate - an organization founded by former skinheads and neo-Nazis who have dedicated themselves to transforming racist, white-supremacist attitudes. The film places special emphasis on Life After Hate's explicit engagement with issues of masculinity, giving voice to white men who say the primary reason they turned to hate groups was to validate their sense of manhood after experiencing...
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the daughter of well-to-do liberal parents plans to marry a black doctor, both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Authors David M. Chalmers (Hooded Americanism) and Wyn Craig Wade (The Fiery Cross) trace the history of the Klan from its birth in 1866 to the present.
Publisher
Artist Tribe
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The award-winning documentary film tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, history-making journeys from the late 30s to the present day. The many first-hand accounts of the challenges faced by these talented women provide a glimpse into decades of racism and sexism that have existed in America.
Publisher
Passion River Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From New Orleans to Virginia, Mississippi and Canada, Frances Causey and Sally Holst travel the roads of oppression, suppression, and even hope to reveal the connections of slavery and strong arm Southern politics to the current racial strife in America.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
George Wallace was an infamous politician and segregationist. He had a lust for power and status that made him bedfellows with racists and became one of the most destructive and most hated American politicians of his time. Follows George from his early days as a state circuit judge to his presidential run, when he was paralyzed by a would-be assassin.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This videodisc focuses on Mumia Abu-Jamal's prolific career in journalism from his early days a writer for the Black Panther newspaper and reporter for NPR, to his radio broadcasts from prison after being incarcerated and placed on death row.
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.
12) Bulworth
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Believing his career is over, Senator Jay Bulworth takes out an enormous insurance policy and a contract on his own life. His impending death fills him with an outrageous desire to break the rules and tell it like it is.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captain Davenport, a proud black army attorney, is sent to Fort Neal, Louisiana, to investigate the ruthless shooting death of Sergeant Waters. Through interviews with Sarge's men, Davenport learns that he was a vicious man who served the white world and despised his own roots. Was the killer a bigoted white officer? Or could he have been a black soldier embittered by Waters' constant race baiting?
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...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mike Anderson is a senior at the quintessential New-England liberal arts school, Frost College. And Mike is eight weeks away from graduation. On this particular day he has his African-American Literature class with his favorite professor. But today, Mike is feeling sadness. He's feeling isolated. He's feeling Angry.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A rich white bigot is dying and hatches a plan to put his head on another body. But when his health starts deteriorating rapidly, his doctor has to put his head on the first available body: a black man from death row.
19) White like me
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (68 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Based on the work of Tim Wise, the film explores race and racism in the United States through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a reassessment of the American ideal of meritocracy and claims that we've entered a post-racial society, Wise offers a look back at the race-based white entitlement programs that built the American middle class, and argues that our failure as a society to come to terms with this legacy of white privilege continues...
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