Louis Gossett
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American historyBorn a free man in New York, Solomon Northup was abducted in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, he published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life--perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives. It became an immediate bestseller and today...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
p2013
Language
English
Description
In this true story narrated by Academy Award winner Louis Gossett, Jr, the listener is transported to 1840s New York, Louisiana, and Washington, DC, to experience the kidnapping and twelve-year bondage of Solomon Northup, a free man of color. Published in 1853, this account was a bombshell in the national debate over slavery leading up to the Civil War and helped tilt public opinion in favor of abolition.
Publisher
Distributed by Ketchup Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of her father leaves a teenage girl without a family, she becomes lost in her own anger and sadness. Her family doctor informs her that her father had a secret, that the mother she never knew was alive and well. When she travels to meet her, she befriends a horse trainer and discovers that in caring for the horse, she is able to overcome her hardships and emotional trauma. Through the victories and new friendships she forms,...
6) Cover-up
Publisher
Electra Films
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Mike Anderson, an American journalist, is trying to piece together a story surrounding a sudden attack on a U.S. naval outpost near Tel Aviv. A U.S. official seems to be stonewalling Anderson, but it soon becomes clear he is in serious danger. By the time Anderson uncovers all the facts, he realizing that only he can stop events from exploding into World War III.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Crossing over: A look back at the impact of the book and miniseries on culture and society.
Kunta Kinte and Fiddler lead desperate runaways through a network of safe havens to a getaway boat. They load the runaways into the boat ... but there's room for one more passenger. A choice must be made; a Mandinka warrior can never abandon his friend.
Roots : one year later: "Fresh off the lightning impact of the original telecast, participants recall how...
8) Toy soldiers
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When an exclusive boarding school is taken hostage by South American terrorists, the rebellious students risk their lives in a desperate, deadly campaign to stop them.
10) Enemy mine
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Two warriors engaged in a savage futuristic war between Earth and the planet Dracon, crash-land on a desolate, fiery planet. At first, the human and his reptilian, alien opponent are intent on destroying each other. But after battling the elements and each other, the two stranded pilots gradually realize that the only way either of them will survive is to over-come their undying hatred.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In an alternate history world where masked vigilantes are treated as outlaws, Detective Angela Abar investigates the reawakening of an extremist terrorist group as they plan to start a mutiny against government agencies.
12) The Cuban
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a naïve pre-med student gets her first job in a nursing home, an unexpected friendship with Luis, an elderly Cuban musician, reignites her love of music and changes her life forever.
13) Lackawanna blues
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In 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...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
La vida del oficial de polic?a Mac McDonald se rompe cuando un tr?gico accidente quita la vida a su hijo. A?os m?s tarde, la amargura y el dolor de Mac han erosionado su amor por su familia, han tensado sus relaciones con la fuerza y ??lo han dejado enojado con Dios. Cuando Mac se asocie en el coche patrulla con Sam Wright, un ministro ordenado por la polic?a afroamericano, ¿podr?n los dos unir fuerzas y ayudarse mutuamente cuando sea imposible mirar...
15) The reason
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious man appears in a small town, unexplained miracles start to occur changing the lives of everyone he meets. There's a mother whose five-year-old boy has leukemia, two doctors, one an atheist haunted by his past, the other a brilliant young oncologist that places all her hope in the power of modern medicine, and a blind pastor whose son hasn't spoken a single word in 38 years.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Jaws 3: everyone at Florida's Sea World is thrilled with the new "Undersea Kingdom", a maze of underwater plexiglass tunnels that permits visitors to get closer to marine life than ever before. The opening ceremonies include many important guests, and one uninvited baby shark that accidentally enters the park's lagoon through a faulty sea gate and subsequently dies. The young shark's 35-foot mother soon follows her offspring, creating the most horrifying...
17) Roots
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Series
Criterion collection volume 945
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.
Publisher
distributed by Entertainment One Film USA
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A universal story of loss, courage and triumph, this recounts the extraordinary journey of Aminata Diallo, an indomitable African woman who survives in a world in which everything seems to be against her. Kidnapped by slave traders in West Africa then sold into slavery in South Carolina, Aminata navigates her way through the American Revolution in New York, the isolated refuge of Nova Scotia, and the treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, before finally...
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