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Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
One day in the life of Jane, a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. As Jane follows her daily routine, she, and viewers, grow increasingly aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her workday, an accumulation of degradations against which Jane decides to take a stand, only to discover the true depth of the system into which...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Red Crow Mi'gMaq reservation, 1976: By government decree, every Indian child under the age of 16 must attend residential school. In the kingdom of the Crow, that means imprisonment at St. Dymphna’s, where students are under the mercy of "Popper," the sadistic agent who runs the school.. At 15, Aila is the weed princess of Red Crow. Hustling with her uncle Burner, she sells enough dope to pay Popper her “truancy tax”, keeping her out of St.Ds....
3) Fences
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Corporate salesman Steve Butler has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. As they grapple with a surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors, the outsiders soon discover the strength of an American small town at a crossroads.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Ricky and his wife Abby, who lost their home in the 2008 financial crash, are desperate to get out of their economic distress. When Ricky gets the opportunity to be his own boss as a delivery driver, they trade in their only asset, Abby's car, for a new white van and the dream that Ricky can work his way up to owning his own franchise. But the couple find their lives are quickly pushed further to the edge by an unrelenting work schedule, a ruthless...
Publisher
King Flex Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In this installment of the Hidden Colors series, the film explores topics such as: the movtivation behind European global subjugation; the history of rarely discussed vast West African empires; how germ warfare is used on melanated people; the history of slave breeding farms in America... and much more."--Container.
7) Test pattern
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Formats
Description
Part psychological horror, part realist drama, this exhilarating debut feature from Shatara Michelle Ford is set against the backdrop of national discussions around inequitable health care and policing, the #metoo movement, and race in America. TEST PATTERN follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a Black woman is sexually assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit....
Publisher
[Distributed by] Team Love Records
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
"Based on over 700 interviews in rural Mexican towns where about half the population has left to work in the United States, [this film] asks why so many Mexicans come to the U.S. and what happens to the families and communities they leave behind." -- Container.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Quasimodo ventures from his tower to the joyous festival of fools, but the crowd turns cruel and rejects him because of the way he looks. The gypsy Esmeralda rescues him and he finds himself battling to save the people and the city he loves--while reminding us to see people as they are rather than how they appear.
13) 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.
14) Time out of mind
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
George is a man whose struggle to find food and a place to sleep in New York City is beautifully captured with remarkable realism and heartrending compassion. Shuffled into the unforgiving bureaucracy of a men's shelter, George seems destined to wind up as just another lost soul swallowed up by the system, until he meets a gregarious, down-and-out ex-jazzman who inspires George to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
15) Cry freedom
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
The true story of the friendship between black activist Stephen Biko and white newspaper editor Donald Woods, who was instrumental in bringing Biko's anti-apartheid message to the international community.
16) Voodoo Macbeth
Publisher
Lightyear Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Before Citizen Kane and The War of the Worlds, leading Broadway actress Rose McClendon and producer John Houseman convince a gifted but untested 20-year-old Orson Welles to direct Shakespeare's Macbeth with an all-Black cast in Harlem. Reimagined in a Haitian setting, this revolutionary 1936 production, which came to be known as "Voodoo Macbeth," would change the world forever. But the road to opening night proves to be a difficult one. Welles and...
17) 28 Days
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
A high-flying party girl gets herself a DUI and 28 days in rehab -- and ends up discovering that real happiness must come from within.
Publisher
Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
Edgar Dinero, un producto incomprendido de los barrios pobres de Puerto Rico, tiene la ambici?n de convertirse en algo m?s. Despu?s de enamorarse de una chica que aporta positividad a su vida, ¿sucumbir? a la violencia del barrio o escuchar? el latido de su coraz?n?
Publisher
Alive Mind Cinema
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"A Good Day to Die chronicles a movement that started a revolution and inspired a nation. By recounting the life story of Dennis Banks, the Native American who co-founded the American Indian Movement (AIM) in 1968 to advocate and protect the rights of American Indians, the film provides an in-depth look at the history and issues surrounding AIM"s formation. From the forced assimilation of Native Americans within boarding schools, to discrimination...
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