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English
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Academy-Award winner Athol Fugard, one of theatre's most acclaimed playwrights, finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a 17-year old white boy in 1950's South Africa, and the two middle aged black servants who raised him. Racism unexpectedly shatters Harold's childhood and friendships in this absorbing, affecting coming of age play. The play, initially banned from production in South Africa, is a Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding...
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doomed from the start: the silverware is all wrong, the carrots need chopping and the radio is on the fritz. What at first appears to be a family comedy takes a sharp, sly turn into a startling examination of deep-seated paradigms about race in America."--
3) Slave play
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Language
English
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"The old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation-in the breeze, in the cotton fields...and in the crack of the whip. It's an antebellum fever-dream, where fear and desire entwine in the looming shadow of the Master's House. Jim trembles as Kaneisha handles melons in the cottage, Alana perspires in time with the plucking of Phillip's fiddle in the boudoir, while Dustin cowers at the heel of Gary's big, black boot in the barn. Nothing is as it seems,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The play, Sizwe Bansi is dead, follows the main character, Sizwe, as he writes to his wife after an unsuccessful search for a new job and better life for his family. This film places the viewer in the discussions between Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona as they attempt to explain and re-write the play. Director: Peter Davis.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
An American sharpshooter (Tom Selleck) is imported from the Old West to the Australian outback to fight off rustlers. When he discovers that he's actually been hired to kill aborigines, he balks, leading to a personal vendetta with the rancher (Alan Rickman).
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Set in 1962, Tracy Turnblad becomes an overnight sensation after appearing on a Baltimore TV dance show. With her newfound popularity, she twists and shakes her hometown, teaching them a thing or two about racial equality, and of course, the power of big hair.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1950, Athol Fugard's searing coming of age masterpiece is set in apartheid era South Africa. On a rainy afternoon in his mother's tea house, lonely 17 year-old Hally and two middle-aged black servants, Sam and Willie, 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....
10) A time to kill
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A small-town lawyer is hired to defend an African American man who is accused of killing the white men who raped his young daughter.
Publisher
RHI Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
©2010
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
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013, ©1988
Language
English
Description
Set in Mississippi in 1964, this controversial film is based on the true story of the case of three young civil rights workers (in real life they were named James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner) who were brutally murdered in June of 1964. The chaotic aftermath was dubbed Mississippi Burning. This movie is told from the perspective of the FBI's operations to uncover evidence and bring the killers to justice. Anger over the real...
15) Showing roots
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1977, as the miniseries "Roots" hits the airwaves, two women are inspired to try and integrate their small Southern town. In a place where there are still "right" and "wrong" sides of the tracks, these two young women - one white, one black - forge an unlikely friendship that sparks a journey of independence and self-discovery, and ultimately results in the creation of the perfect hairdo.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on the acclaimed movie, this is an episodic series that tells the story of a group of black students navigating the daily slights and slippery politics of life at an Ivy League college that's not nearly as post-racial as it thinks.
17) Honky
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A hilarious send-up of race relations in contemporary America by young playwright Greg Kalleres. It characters juggle imaginary pharmaceuticals, basketball shoes, race, and love in this no-holds-barred yet touching comedy.
18) Gook
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
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Eli (Justin Chon) and Daniel (David So) are two Korean American brothers that run their late father's shoe store in a predominantly African American community of Los Angeles. These two brothers strike up an unlikely friendship with 11-year-old African American girl, Kamilla (Simone Baker). As Daniel dreams of becoming a recording artist and Eli struggles to keep the store afloat, racial tensions build to a breaking point in L.A. as the infamous L.A....
19) Skin
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Sandra Laing, a distinctly mixed-race South African woman, is born to white parents during the apartheid era. Despite her upbringing as a white girl, Sandra is eventually classified as 'Coloured' by the government and stripped of the rights with which the rest of her family is privileged. And when she begins a love affair with a local vegetable dealer, Sandra finds herself cut off from her past and living the hard life of a truly black woman in a...
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