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Series
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
When an estranged friend refuses the Congressional Medal of Honor for service during World War II, a retired judge tries to find out why and in the process solves a mystery, heals his friendship, saves a marriage, and falls in love.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Set in Mississippi in 1964, this is a fictionalized version of the case of the murder of three young civil rights workers, the FBI's attempts to find the missing boys and the clash between the authorities and the locals in a Klan-dominated town.
6) Glory road
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Don Haskins, a future Hall of Fame coach of tiny Texas Western University, bucks convention by simply starting the best players he can find: history's first all-African American lineup.
Series
Publisher
Rich-Heape Films, Inc
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Narrated by James Earl Jones and with music by The Neville Brothers this video explores the issue of racial identity among Native and African Americans. This in-depth documentary examines the coalescence of these two groups in American history.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Musician Daryl likes to meet and befriend members of the Ku Klux Klan- something few black men can say. In his travels, he's collected robes and other artifacts from friends affiliated with the Klan, building a collection piece by piece, story by story, and person by person in hopes of eventually opening a "Museum of the Klan", a testimony to what knowledge and respectful, personal communication can accomplish. In ACCIDENTAL COURTESY, Daryl's journey...
10) Edge of the city
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
If you need a job Charlie Malik can find a spot for you in the dockside railyards. All he needs in return is that you show up on time, work hard, and kick back part of your pay. Two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, an Army deserter, and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going freight car loader, join forces against a corrupt New York waterfront union official. The two share a bond that cuts across society's black/white divide.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.
13) The intruder
Publisher
New Concorde
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Arriving in a sleepy Southern town on the eve of integration, slick charismatic Adam Cramer is an ominous influence, inciting its white citizens into a racial fervor, and plunging the once quiet community into a state of chaos.
Publisher
Teaching Tolerance
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In May of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. asked black people of Birmingham, Alabama to go to jail in the cause of racial equality. The adults were afraid to go to jail and so the school children marched and over 5000 of them were arrested. This lead President Kennedy to sponsor the 1964 Civil Rights Act which eventually to the march on Washington. Contains vintage film footage, re-stagings of some activities and interviews with some of the protesters....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
For years, acclaimed author and speaker Tim Wise has been electrifying audiences on the college lecture circuit with his deeply personal take on whiteness and white privilege. In this spellbinding lecture, the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son offers a unique, inside-out view of race and racism in America. Expertly overcoming the defensiveness that often surrounds these issues, Wise provides a non-confrontational explanation...
18) The well
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After 5-year-old Carolyn disappears near her small racially-divided hometown, the rumors of her wondering off with a white stranger cause the population to erupt into violence. When it is finally discovered that she has fallen into an abandoned well, the town unites to rescue her.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The four-part series hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chronicles the vast social networks and organizations created by and for Black people beyond the reach of the "White gaze." The series recounts the establishment of the Prince Hall Masons in 1775 through the formation of all-Black towns and business districts, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, destinations for leisure, and the social media phenomenon of Black Twitter. Professor Gates...
Series
Criterion collection volume 97
Language
English
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Description
Traces the course of a single day on a block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. It's the hottest day of the year, a scorching 24 hour period that will change the lives of its residents forever.
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