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1) Pinky
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Patricia 'Pinky' Johnson returns to her home in the South after studying nursing in New England. When her grandmother's boss, Miss Em, becomes ill, Pinky cares for her. Miss Em leaves her estate to her, but Pinky faces a long court battle to keep it.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A heartbreaking documentary that upsets your expectations of happily-ever-afters, Daughter from Danang is a riveting emotional drama of longing, identity, and the personal legacy of war. To all outward appearances, Heidi is the proverbial "all-American girl", hailing from small town Pulaski, Tenn. But her birth name was Mai Thi Hiep. Born in Danang, Vietnam in 1968, she's the mixed-race daughter of an American serviceman and a Vietnamese woman. Fearing...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
12-year-old Josh is a mixed race boy and a promising baseball player. He is abused by his mother's boyfriend Byrd, and neglected by his mother Debbie. He forges his own path in life when his estranged grandfather insists he study for his Bar Mitzvah.
5) Queen
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
The remarkable history of Alex Haley's paternal side. Queen is the daughter of a slave and a plantation owner. During the turbulent decades of the antebellum South, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond, she searches for a home in the two cultures and at times is shunned by both. Rejection and hate are no match for her unconquerable will.
6) Belle
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although Dido Elizabeth Belle, an eighteenth-century English woman of mixed race, is raised in privilege by her aristocratic great-uncle and his wife, she is denied a proper social standing because of her skin color. But when Dido falls in love with a young idealist lawyer who aspires to create positive change, she finds herself caught between two worlds.
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
'An orphan boy of mixed race finds family with the newly arrived white village doctor in Hawaii. The boy can run like the wind, and begins bringing Doc's medicine to coffee pickers throughout the mountainous region. On an errand, the medicine runner meets the daughter of the plantation owner and a forbidden, young love blossoms like the white "Kona Snow" of the surrounding coffee trees."--Container.
8) Colour blind
Series
Publisher
KOCH Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In post-World War I England, Briget McQueen returns to her clan with a black husband and his baby. The story charts the family passions and problems resulting from the marriage and the experiences of their mixed race daughter.
9) Flaming star
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
In the years after the Civil War, western Texas is an uneasy meeting ground of two cultures: one white, the other Native-American. When fighting breaks out between the settlers and natives, Pacer Burton (Elvis Presley), the son of a white rancher (John McIntire), is pulled into the deadly violence despite his peacemaking efforts.
10) Secrets & lies
Series
Criterion collection volume 1070
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Hortense begins the search for her birth mother as an adult, the revelation that a lonely white factory worker gave up a black baby for adoption sends shock waves through the family.
11) Secrets & lies
Series
Criterion collection volume 1070
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When Hortense begins the search for her birth mother as an adult, the revelation that a lonely white factory worker gave up a black baby for adoption sends shock waves through the family.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This film is the followup of First contact. It traces the fortunes of Joe Leahy, the mixed-race son of Australian explorer Michael Leahy, in his uneasy relationship with his tribal neighbors. Joe built his coffee plantation on land bought from the Ganiga in the mid 1970s. European educated, raised in the highlands of Papua, freed by his mixed race from the entanglements of tribal obligation, Joe leads a Western lifestyle governed by individualism...
13) Whity
Series
Fassbinder Collection) volume 1
Publisher
Fantoma
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Fassbinder's sole western is set in the late 1800s in the perverse household of Ben Nicholson, his blonde trophy wife Katherine, and two sons, the sadistic Frank and brain-damaged Davy. Whity's mother Marpessa is the family cook, singing freedom songs in the kitchen, but Whity adores the family and puts up with enslavement to please them--until he falls in love with saloon-singer Hanna. Filmed in Spain on the same sets where Sergio Leone staged Clint...
14) Band of angels
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Hamish Bond is a plantation owner who has a secret past of slave trading. Rau-ru is a freedom-yearning slave who has been raised as a son by Bond. Amantha Starr is a fiery belle who goes on the auction block when her part-African heritage is revealed - and is sold to Bond. She loathes Bond at first but is eventually won over.
15) Lackawanna blues
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
IIn a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives. Based on Ruben Santiago-Hudson's autobiographical play about his relationship with his guardian Rachel Crosby, set in 1950's and 1960's Lackawanna, New York. After the separation of his parents, young Ruben, a part-black, part-Hispanic child, is sent to live in a small-scale boarding house run by...
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