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Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One hundred and fifty thousand dollars, ready for the taking. It's too much to resist for Earl Slater, a bigoted ex-con slumming through life with a patronizing girlfriend, an obliging neighbor and zero expectations. He agrees to be part of a bank job planned by former cop Burke. Until, that is, he finds out one of his partners will be a black man. Earl's desperate need for cash, however, leads him to reconsider. For the job only, he'll put his racism...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color and black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 discussion guide (13 pages ; 19 cm)
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.
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
5) Gallows road
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
6) Beba
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Appears on list
Description
An Afro-Latina artist forges her own creative path amid a landscape of intense racial and political unrest in this powerful documentary.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. "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...
9) Cane River
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Written, produced, and directed by the late Horace B. Jenkins and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew, this recently rediscovered landmark of American independent cinema is a charmingly laid-back, socially incisive love story set in the heart of Louisiana. It's there that a forbidden romance between an aspiring writer and an ambitious, college-bound woman reveals the tensions between two black communities: the wealthy Creoles and...
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (40 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"What is it like to be Black in predominantly white 'small-town America'? Through a series of interviews, 'Crossroads Stories' uncovers how six Columbus, IN natives feel navigating life as Black Americans in their hometown. Through an emotional yet hopeful exposition, these Black community members highlight the racial disparities and routine indignities that exist in communities where being a personal [i.e. person] of color is considered deviating...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (35 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this new 2021 high-definition program, learn all about social justice. What is the history and significance of the Black Lives Matter movement? What is systemic racism and how has it affected the lives of Black people past and present? What is racial inequality? What is the history of the LGBTQ+ community's fight for equality? The answers to these questions and more are explored in depth with detailed graphics, diagrams and exciting video. On-screen,...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (65 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([24] pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
Newly preserved by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture and finally available together for the first time, Madeline Anderson’s three films—INTEGRATION REPORT 1 (1960), A TRIBUTE TO MALCOLM X (1967), and I AM SOMEBODY (1970)—bring viewers to the front lines of the fight for civil rights. In 1969, black female hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina went on strike for union recognition and a wage increase,...
15) The defiant ones
Pub. Date
[c2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two convicts escaping from a Southern work gang discover that they are bound together by an unbreakable iron chain and separated by a hatred for each other. But in order to elude capture they must overcome their hostility.
16) Aferim!
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in early nineteenth century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
Pub. Date
©2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a family.
19) Crash
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles. Crash takes a provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America.
20) The hate u give
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Starr Carter navigates the perilous waters between her poor, black neighborhood and her prestigious, mainly white private school. This all changes when she finds herself in the middle of racial activism after her best friend is shot by police officers, and she's forced to make a decision. Allow the media to skewer her friend to protect the status quo, or stand up and tell the truth in memory of Khalil?
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