Angela Bassett
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
A four part series portraying the struggles of the African people in America. This series exposes the truth through surprising revelations, dramatic recreations, rare archival photography, riveting first-person accounts and defines the reality of slavery's past through insightful commentary.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A single mother with little more than talent and the determination to make a difference, Roberta Guaspari overcame the skepticism of everyone who didn't think she should be teaching violin to students in a tough inner-city neighborhood.
5) Passion Fish
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own. Nominated for two **Academy Awards** for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Mary McDonnell, and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
6) Malcolm X
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.
7) Contact
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
Astronomer Ellie Arroway discovers communication from the star Vega and leads an international team in deciphering it, eventually travelling through space to encounter the senders of the message.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Examines the devastating effects of racism on the human spirit through the progress of one couple's life together under Apartheid, as they are pushed from the bucolic Eden of South African farmlands into a makeshift shelter on the mudflats near Cape Town.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In a universe as vast as it is mysterious, a small but powerful force has existed for centuries. Protectors of peace and justice, they are called the Green Lantern Corps. A brotherhood of warriors sworn to keep intergalactic order, each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. When a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of their newest...
10) Boyz n the hood
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Three friends struggle to survive in South Central Los Angeles where friendship, pain, danger and love form a true picture of life in the 'hood in this critically acclaimed, action-filled story.
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
[2001].
Language
English
Description
Whispers, an innocent baby elephant who's just learning to walk on his own four feet, finds himself separated from his mother Gentle Heart. In his desperate search to find her, he meets the cynical loner Groove, an outcast from her own herd who never wanted to be a mother. Together, this unlikely pair braves danger after danger on their journey to find water and Whispers' mother.
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Elsa Mars is the proprietor of a troupe of human "curiosities" on a desperate journey of survival in the sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida, in 1952. Her menagerie of performers includes a two-headed, telepathic twin, a take-charge bearded lady, a vulnerable strongman, and his three-breasted wife. But strange emergence of an entity will savagely threaten the lives of the townsfolk and freaks alike.
15) Strange days
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Set in Los Angeles at the turn of the millenium, a former cop, turned seller of illicit recordings, gets an explosive tape involving the police execution of a popular African American singer.
16) Chi-Raq
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Chi-Raq is a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play 'Lysistrata' by Aristophanes. After the murder of a child by a stray bullet, a group of women led by Lysistrata organize against the on-going violence in Chicago's South Side creating a movement that challenges the nature of race, sex and violence in America and around the world.
17) Tina
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life and career of Tina Turner, featuring her personal reflections, archival interviews, and contributions from others.
19) Contact
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
An astronomer discovers a signal from another planet and is chosen to go into space on a new spaceship and find its source.