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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in Baltimore of the 1940s, tells the story of Dr. Alfred Blalok and lab tech Vivien Thomas who defy strictly enforced racial boundries to develop heart surgery techniques to help babies.
2) Malcolm X
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (201 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspiring story of Malcolm X, as he rises up from poverty, encounters the law, achieves spiritual enlightenment, and reaches out to others in the fight for human and civil rights.
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
c 2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105, 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The River Niger: A house-painter/poet struggles to support his cancer-plagued wife. Death of a prophet: Combines documentary footage with reenactments to weave a fascinating work. A suspense thriller which follows the events in the final 24 hours of the life of religious and political leader Malcolm X.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A girl from a poor black neighborhood attending a rich mostly white prep school witnesses her childhood friend being killed by a police officer and faces a difficult dilemma.
5) Till
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 11 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Till tells the story of Mamie Till-Mobley (Danielle Deadwyler), whose pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son Emmett Louis Till (Jalyn Hall) became a galvanizing moment that helped lead to the creation of the civil rights movement.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (610 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Black Korean War veteran joins his uncle and his friend on a trip across 1950s America, facing both racism and horrifying monsters from H.P. Lovecraft stories.
7) Hart's war
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a law student and lieutenant during WWII is captured and asked to defend an African American soldier who is falsly accused of a crime he finds that the trial is a front for secret plans brewing in the prison camp.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1106
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown meet in Miami, and discuss their respective roles in the Civil Rights Movement.
9) Respect
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a young child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, Respect is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice and become the Queen of Soul."--container.
10) 12 years a slave
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told the truth, Solomon Northup was sold from plantation to plantation in Louisiana, toiling under cruel masters for twelve years before meeting Samuel Bass, a Canadian who finally put him in touch with his family, and helped start the process to regain his...
11) Roots
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (573 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
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