Courtney B. Vance
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
This documentary captures the anticipation that the bout between African American heavyweight Joe Louis and his German opponent Max Schmeling generated, the events leading up to it, the impact Louis's victory had on Blacks and its significance for Jews.
4) Joyful noise
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the church choir to lift their spirits by winning the national Joyful Noise Competition. But the discord between its two leading ladies threatens to tear everything apart.
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
In the small southern town of Holly Springs, Jewel Mae, known as Cookie, has died mysteriously. Who is the murderer? Where is the murderer? Has there even been a murder? A small town comedy rich in hidden secrets and buried scandals.
9) Ben is back
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a drug addict surprises his family by returning home on Christmas Eve, he and his mother realize that they must rebuild their relationship. As the day progresses, she realizes that her son is still in danger -- from relapse, from his past -- and she will have her patience and love tested.
10) Ben is back
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ben Burns, a drug-addicted teenager, shows up unexpectedly to visit his family on Christmas Eve. His wary mother welcomes him, but after finding out he's still in danger, she must to do everything she can to help her family.
11) Space cowboys
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
When a retired engineer is called upon to rescue a failing satellite, he insists that his equally old teammates accompany him into space.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of the Great Depression, the Federal Writers Project hired journalists and writers to travel the country and record the memories of the last generation of African-Americans born into slavery. Over 2,000 interviews were transcribed as spoken, in the vernacular of the time to form a unique historical record--first-hand accounts of what it was to be a slave." --container.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In every American conflict from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf War, American military men and women have captured the horror, pathos and intensity of battle by writing letters home. Collecting 50,000 war letters, using the most compelling and enlightening of the missives and newly discovered home movies, this tells the story of American wars from the viewpoint of the men and women on the frontlines and those who waited at home.
16) Hamburger Hill
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen American soldiers in Vietnam battle for a mud-covered mound of earth that chews up soldiers like meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse.
18) Space cowboys
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Some language.
They had trained body and mind for America's leap into space. But when the moment came, they were replaced. Now, 40 years later, another moment has come and this time it's all theirs. These old-school test pilots whose grasp of outdated technology makes them the only ones able to repair a primitive, deorbiting Russian satellite that imperils Earth.
19) 12 angry men
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Courtroom drama revolving around the trial of a boy accused of killing his father, where one man stands between him and capital punishment.
20) The mummy
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Thought safely entombed deep beneath the desert, an ancient princess whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day. Her malevolence has grown over millennia and with it come terrors that defy human comprehension.