Macro Media
1) Fences
Publication Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
Publication Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
Denzel Washington stars as Roman Israel, a driven, idealistic defense attorney who, through a tumultuous series of events, finds himself in a crisis that leads to extreme action.
3) Mudbound
Series
Criterion collection volume 1205
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart.
4) Nine days
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Will spends his days in a remote outpost watching the live Point of View (POV) on TV's of people going about their lives, until one subject perishes, leaving a vacancy for a new life on earth. Soon, several candidates, unborn souls, arrive at Will's to undergo tests determining their fitness, facing oblivion when they are deemed unsuitable. But Will soon faces his own existential challenge in the form of free-spirited Emma, a candidate who is not...
6) Just mercy
Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
A powerful and thought-provoking true story follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley. One of his first and most incendiary cases is that of Walter McMillian.
Publication Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When best friends and roommates Dreux and Alyssa discover Alyssa's boyfriend has blown their rent money, the duo finds themselves going to extremes in a race against the clock to avoid eviction and keep their friendship intact.
8) Blue bayou
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.