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Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When John Coffey, a giant of a man, is brought to death row, prison guard Paul Edgecomb and his fellow guards discover something very unusual about him. Convicted for the sadistic murder of two young girls, but behaving almost like a child himself, Coffey seems to have a supernatural gift of healing living things. Expectations are turned upside down and the guards' sense of humanity is awakened in this adaptation of the novel by Stephen King.
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.
Series
Dukes of Hazzard TV volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Brothers Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Highlights include a grudge race between longtime rivals (and former partners-in-crime) Boss Hogg and Uncle Jesse, a con game involving three million dollars in phony gold bars, a misdelivered consignment of stolen TV sets, an encounter with elderly counterfeiter Granny Annie (played by veteran radio actress Lurene Tuttle), a visit from the Dukes' "veddy" British cousin Gaylord (Simon MacCorkindale), a Smokey and the Bandit-like entanglement with...
9) Ellen Foster
Publisher
Family Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for most of her life, a young orphan girl searches for a better life and finally finds it in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
10) Nightjohn
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
The story of a young slave girl and the man who, at great risk to each other, teaches her to read, opening up a whole new world for her.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Lily Owens is a young girl who lives on the peach farm that her abusive father owns. Rosaleen is a black woman hired by Lily's father to be a stand in mother for Lilly. Rosaleen insults some of the biggest racists in their town. Lily and Rosaleen run away to a town Lily believes that her mother once lived in. They go to live with the three Boatwright sisters on their honey farm. She finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping.
13) Bright leaf
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Brant Royle buys and sells tobacco, building a cigarette manufacturing empire, but his empire is starting to crumble. He is romantically drawn to the daughter of the tycoon who had earlier brought ruin to his family, and she may have an agenda of her own.
14) Black like me
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
The true story of a white man, J.H. Griffin (a.k.a. John Finley Horton) who chemically altered the color of his skin in order to personally experience and write about racism in the 1960s.
16) Cookie's fortune
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.
17) The apostle
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
Sonny, a gifted Southern preacher loved by his community, loses control and committs a crime of passion. Forced to run from the law, Sonny adopts a new identity and sets out on a new mission--to find the road to redemption.
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When a Southern white woman accuses a black man of rape, the outcome of the trial is a foregone conclusion and no lawyer except Peck will defend him. Peck's defense costs him friendships but earns him the respect of his two children.
Series
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When a Southern white woman accuses a black man of rape, the outcome of the trial is a foregone conclusion and no lawyer except Peck will defend him. Peck's defense costs him friendships but earns him the respect of his two children.
20) Mandingo
Publisher
Legend Films
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
A shocking look at plantation life in the Deep South. Mede is a slave whose master, Hammond Maxwell, intends on keeping him as a prizefighter. As Maxwell focuses his attention on his wenches and Mede's brutal training, his neglected wife turns her passions towards Mede himself.
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