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1) Native Son
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
One of the most controversial novels of its day, Richard Wright's Native Son (first published in 1940) exposed the injustices of urban African-American life, witnessed through the eyes of Bigger Thomas, whose violent tendencies and moral confusion were the natural result of a lifetime of deprivation. In prison for murder and sentenced to death, Thomas reflects on the circumstances that led to his fate. Kino Lorber presents a new restoration of the...
2) Native Son
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
NATIVE SON, AUTHOR and ACTIVIST. RICHARD WRIGHT was an African-American author of novels, short stories and non-fiction that dealt with powerful themes and controversial topics. Much of his works concerned racial themes that helped redefine discussions of race relations in America in the mid-20th century. Born on a plantation in Mississippi, Wright was a descendent of the first slaves who arrived in Jamestown Massachusetts. This program follows...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This examination of current black literature deepens appreciation of black literary traditions and relates literary expression to social struggle. The spirit of Harlem and its people is evoked by excerpts from Hughes, Cullen and McKay. Selections from Brooks, Horne and Walker, with a discussion of "Native Son" by Richard Wright, illustrate changes in black literature after the Harlem Renaissance.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Richard Wright - Black Boy is an Emmy Award winning film -- the first documentary film on the life, work and legacy of Richard Wright. Born outside Natchez, Mississippi in 1908, Wright overcame a childhood of poverty and oppression to become one of America's most influential writers. His first major works, Native Son and Black Boy, were runaway best sellers which are still mainstays of high school and college literature and composition classes. According...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
James Baldwin (1924-1987) was at once a major twentieth century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling Americans, Black and white, to confront their shared racial tragedy. James Baldwin: the price of the ticket captures on film the passionate intellect and courageous writing of a man who was born black, impoverished, gay and gifted. James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket uses striking archival...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Here East German celebrity Gojko Mitic stars his very first Indianer film, or East German Western, as the fearless chief Tokei-ihto, whose Dakota tribe is being driven from the land of their ancestors. Based on the carefully researched fiction of Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich, it became East Germany's answer to the West German fascination with author Karl May. This production began the most successful series of box office hits in the history of East...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What does it mean to be a Native American? Perhaps Native American model Stormy Hollingsworth (Ute) says it best, "to be proud, to know that our past and our whole history is a circle of life." This program introduces us to members of the Ute, Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Omaha nations, who reveal that Indians' lives are based on a circle which incorporates their beliefs in respecting their heritage, preserving their traditions and educating their...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An educational documentary examining the causes and effects of the America's first great Indian War. ABOUT THE PROGRAM: King Philip's War, took place between June 1675 and August 1676 between the colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colonies of New England and the Native American, Wampanoag Tribe in what is considered the bloodiest war per capita in this country's history. King Philip was the name given to Metacom, the great chief of the Wampanoag...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a story of profound faith revered by much of humanity, one young woman struggles with the destiny for which she is chosen—to give birth to the Son of God and to become the object of salvation for billions of souls—a deeply moving journey told in THE NATIVITY STORY. The Academy Award-nominated star of Whale Rider, Keisha Castle-Hughes, portrays Mary, a young wife and soon-to-be mother upon whom a seemingly impossible burden will be placed. Over...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
A nativity story reboot that gently skewers French cultural pretensions, following a discontented Parisian teenager in search of a father. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival** and the **New York Film Festival**. *"...builds to a lovely finale that evokes the Bible, the French Resistance and the surreal." - Ben Kenigsberg, **The New York Times*** *"...it's as thrilling as it is ingenious." - Richard Brody, **New Yorker***...
13) Eating Up Easter
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In a cinematic letter to his son, native Rapanui (Easter Island) filmmaker Sergio Mata'u Rapu explores the modern dilemma of their people, decendants of the ancient statue builders, as they face the consequences of their rapidly developing home.
14) End of Sentence
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Frank Fogle embarks on a journey to honor his wife's last wish of spreading her ashes in a remote lake in her native Ireland and a promise of taking his estranged son, Sean, along for the trip.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Landmark Australian 1949 epic of "How the West Was Won" proportions Sons of Matthew, based on a true family exploration story set in the astonishing beauty of incredible rugged hinterland on the far north coast of Sydney, was a major film in its day. I saw it in 1995 as a new 35mm print screened in a luxury cinema. The impact of this huge cinematic success is undiminished and viewers today will be equally as impressed. Just to film this epic would...
16) McLintock!
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
In this classic comic western, aging rancher George Washington McLintock (John Wayne), a wealthy self-made man, is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly everyone wants a piece of his enormous farmstead, including high-ranking government men, McLintock's own sons and nearby Native Americans.. As McLintock tries to juggle his various adversaries, his wife, who left him two years previously, suddenly returns. But...
17) Landscape Film
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Portuguese
Description
A journey through the art and life of the Brazilian landscape architect and painter best known for the iconic black-and-white mosaic promenades that line Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach. LANDSCAPE FILM shows the full contribution of the landscape artist to the national flora. Born in São Paulo, the son of a German Jew and Catholic from Pernambuco, Burle Marx was a forerunner of ecology and defense of the environment. The landscaper valued native...
Publisher
Allied Vaughn
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Ralph Stanley is a musician, a genealogist, a historian and an acclaimed storyteller. But more than anything, this Mount Desert Island native is a master boat builder. In particular, Ralph has a special genius for constructing beautiful - yet durable – wooden vessels, something for which he was won national acclaim and recognition.This captivating documentary tells the story of Ralph Stanley’s life as a boat builder, from his childhood spent watching...
19) Dakan (Destiny)
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
The first feature film on homosexuality from sub-Saharan Africa. While "coming out" may have become primetime fare in the U.S., this film was met with angry protests when it was shot in the director's native Guinea and has generated heated debate among Africanists here as well. But beyond its controversial topic, Dakan is a contemporary African reinterpretation of the age-old Romeo and Juliet conflict between love and social convention. Director Mohamed...
20) Jellyfish
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
עברית
Description
Poignant, often witty and exceedingly cinematic, JELLYFISH tells the story of three very different Tel Aviv women whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a bride who breaks her leg escaping a locked toilet stall, ruining her chance at a dream Caribbean honeymoon. And...
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