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Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A grandson of a Klansman comes of age in the deep south and joins the Civil Rights Movement. From executive producer Spike Lee and based on Bob Zellner’s autobiography, “The Wrong Side of Murder Creek”
3) The Believer
Publisher
LoneStar Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic philosophy. Based on the factual story of a K.K.K. member in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter.
Publisher
Unobstructed View
Pub. Date
1964.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Based on the landmark memoir by John Howard Griffin, BLACK LIKE ME stars James Whitmore as Griffin, who medically altered his pigment and, with the help of a sunlamp, reinvented himself as an itinerant black writer navigating his way through Mississippi and Alabama. Along the way he experienced firsthand both crushing racism and the incredible life force of the Afro-American communities.
5) Cane River
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
1982.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Written, produced, and directed by Emmy Award-winning documentarian, Horace B. Jenkins, and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew, CANE RIVER is a racially-charged love story in Natchitoches Parish, a “free community of color” in Louisiana. A budding, forbidden romance lays bare the tensions between two black communities, both descended from slaves but of disparate opportunity—the light-skinned, property-owning Creoles and the...
6) Green book
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on a book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey...
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother, Danny, from a similar fate.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two convicts escaping from a Southern work gang discover that they are bound together by an unbreakable iron chain and separated by hatred towards each other.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small town Southern sheriff finds himself in an uneasy alliance with a big-city black homicide detective as they investigate a murder.
Language
English
Description
Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Collector's ed. ; Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
DVD widescreen.
Language
English
Description
The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
14) Gallows road
Publisher
Anderson Digital
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Devoted family man and religious faithful Bob Collins is devastated by a tragic crime that shakes his faith to the core, when his business is ruined on the eve of its grand opening. Jake, who by chance went along for the ride that fateful night, with revengeful bully Snake Cain and his friend, finds himself overcome by guilt over what has transpired.
15) Apache rifles
Publisher
Kit Parker Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Widescreen; [Special edition].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The racist army commander of an Arizona outpost must change his feelings for Native Americans when he falls for a beautiful Apache missionary. His attempts at reformation are frustrated by a band of gold-hungry miners who want to start a war with the Apaches.
16) Angelitos negros
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Full screen version; edition de homenaje 50° aniversario.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Ana Luisa and Jose Carlos, both white, give birth to a black child. Ana rejects the little girl, who ends up suffering the injustice of racism, but Ana Luisa doesn't know that her own maid, who is also black, hides a secret that will change her life.
Un famoso cantante se enamora y se casa con una hermosa mujer rubia. Cuando su primer hijo nace y es negro, la bebé es rechazada por su madre, que piensa que el defecto viene del padre. Sin embargo,...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Working in 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on "blue babies", Dr. Alfred Blalock and lab technician Vivien Thomas form an impressive team. As Blalock and Thomas invent a new field of medicine, saving thousands of lives in the process, the social pressures of segregation threaten to undermine their collaboration and tear them apart.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"This inspiring true story of heroism and love illuminates the extraordinary life of Henriette Dalille, the first African American saint"--Container.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (336 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2022, the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac tells the story of his life to renown journalist Daniel Molloy. Beginning in 1910 New Orleans, Louis forms a vampire family with the vampire Lestat, complete with teen fledgling, Claudia.
20) Shaft
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
To stop a racist killer Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness that can put the bad guy behind bars. As Shaft closes in, so does the danger. Up against corrupt cops and venomous druglords Shaft's out to make crime pay up.
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