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2) Selma
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
3) Memory house
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Portuguese
Description
In this audacious debut feature, Joao Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam, an Indigenous Black man from the rural North, moves to an industrialized Southern town populated by the descendants of Austrian ex-pats to work in a milk factory. Immediately confronted with their virulent racism, he becomes more and more estranged from the white world. Upon discovering an abandoned house...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
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.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of Citizen. The White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act play, for all the characters' disagreements, stalemates, and seeming impasses, explore what happens if one is willing to stay in the room when it is painful to bear the pressure to listen and the obligation...
Publisher
Vanguard Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Michael Daye makes a promise to his dying friend to look out for his wife Emily and daughter Amy, who are white. As fate would have it, Emily becomes incapacitated and Michael finds himself responsible for Amy's care. When Amy's relatives object because he's black and his fiancee gives him an ultimatum, Michael must decide if he will honor his promise or cave to the pressures around him.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Athol Fugard's searing coming of age masterpiece set in apartheid era South Africa. On a rainy afternoon in his mother's tea house, lonely 17 year-old Hally and Sam and Willie, two middle-aged black servants, share idyllic memories of their lifelong friendship. But when Hally learns that his invalid alcoholic father is coming home from the hospital, he unleashes his resentment and rage on Sam and Willie with devastating consequences.
9) Rosewood
Publisher
Warner Home video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
In 1923 a black town in Florida was burned to the ground, its people murdered because of a lie. Some escaped and survived because of the courage and compassion of a few extraordinary people.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When her mother suddenly dies, Sara must abandon her plans to become a ballerina and join her estranged father on Chicago's gritty South side. She feels out of place until she is befriended by a black classmate and her handsome brother, Derek. Sara and Derek's shared love for dance leads to romance-- and opposition from their families and friends.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Way back in 2002, the brothers were hot on the heels of The Man, the leader of a racist, worldwide syndicate known as The Organization, but accidentally got caught in an avalanche of oppressive, white snow. Sixteen years later, they are discovered, thawed out, and remain in a coma; Lionel sets out to finish the job they started. Lionel must take on an even more dangerous threat to the black community.
Author
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Huckleberry Finn: After Huck escapes from his drunken father, he teams up with his old friend, Jim, a slave headed to free territory.
The adventures of Tom Sawyer: Tom Sawyer is a big troublemaker in his small Missouri hometown. But when he and his pal, Huckleberry Finn, witness a murder, they find their troubles have just begun.
14) East west 101
Series
Publisher
Madman Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Television drama series from Australia. Set around the Major Crime Squad in metropolitan Sydney where detectives Zane Malik, a Muslim Australian, and Ray Crowley, an Anglo-Australian, are pitted against each other in a struggle for respect.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A vicious hate crime at an elite New England college thrusts the new dean of students into the investigation. When charged with maintaining order on campus, she is forced to examine her own feelings about race. Based on the critically acclaimed play, a compelling movie that examines the emotional fallout of prejudice within the cloistered walls of academia.
Author
Series
Publisher
L.A. Theatre Works
Pub. Date
p2001
Language
English
Description
Presents a drama set in a small Louisiana Cajun community in the late 1940s. A disillusioned schoolteacher agrees to talk with a young black man who has been falsely convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The two men forge a bond as they come to understand what it means to resist one's own fate.
Publisher
RHI Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
An unlikely friendship blossoms between two ten-year-old boys from different backgrounds during the racially charged backdrop of rural Texas, 1964. Through the years into manhood, prevailing attitudes and the growing civil rights movement severely test their friendship. In the end, they will discover that despite people's differences, it's the memories you make that determine your happiness and peace in life.
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old David Wiseman lives with the singular dream of being a cricket star, but much to the dismay and ridicule of his classmates, he is all passion and no skill. The son of a traditional Jewish family living in the racial and cultural turbulence of 1960s South London, David and his world are shaken by the unexpected arrival of the Samuels, a lively and big-hearted Jamaican family.