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Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
[Widescreen].
Language
English
Description
The year is 1964. Carolina Military Institute has admitted, for the first time, a young Black man into its freshman class. Will is asked to protect him from The Ten--a secret society of cadets dedicated to eliminating from the school those it deems unfit. Steeped in myth and legend, The Ten's power extends to every corner of Will's life, and he is ultimately forced to risk his career, the love of his closest friends and his own life.
4) The Walk
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1974, a Boston Irish cop confronts fierce social pressure after being assigned to protect black high school students as they are bused into all-white South Boston High.
6) The Believer
Publisher
LoneStar Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic philosophy. Based on the factual story of a K.K.K. member in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter.
7) Not My Idea
Publisher
Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A white child sees TV coverage of a police shooting—and has some questions. Adults in the child’s life deflect and turn away, but a narrator, voiced by the author Anastasia Higginbotham, invites the child—and viewers—to become curious about racism, accept that it's real, and cultivate justice.
Publisher
Unobstructed View
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
Based on the landmark memoir by John Howard Griffin, BLACK LIKE ME stars James Whitmore as Griffin, who medically altered his pigment and, with the help of a sunlamp, reinvented himself as an itinerant black writer navigating his way through Mississippi and Alabama. Along the way he experienced firsthand both crushing racism and the incredible life force of the Afro-American communities.
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, Paul (Will Smith) deftly penetrates the world of art-dealing New York urbanites Ouisa and Flan Kittredge (Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland). But as Paul’s tangled web of dropped names and near-fame begins to unravel, he provides his hosts with much more than just the ultimate cocktail party anecdote – he sets in motion a series of events that will alter the course of their lives! Ian McKellen and Mary Beth...
10) American Violet
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After an overzealous district attorney's drug bust lands her in jail, single mother Dee Roberts must face an agonizing choice: Plead guilty and go home a convicted felon, or fight the charges and risk a lengthy prison sentence. Despite her mother's advice and risking everything, innocent Dee chooses to fight the criminal justice system, joined by an ACLU attorney and a former narcotics cop.
11) Bulworth
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Believing his career is over, Senator Jay Bulworth takes out an enormous insurance policy and a contract on his own life. His impending death fills him with an outrageous desire to break the rules and tell it like it is.
13) Cane River
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Written, produced, and directed by Emmy Award-winning documentarian, Horace B. Jenkins, and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew, CANE RIVER is a racially-charged love story in Natchitoches Parish, a “free community of color” in Louisiana. A budding, forbidden romance lays bare the tensions between two black communities, both descended from slaves but of disparate opportunity—the light-skinned, property-owning Creoles and the...
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, ©1990
Edition
Standard format.
Language
English
Description
A white woman and an African-American woman build a lasting friendship based on mutual respect that grows while they live through and respond to the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, putting their lives on the line for civil rights.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In the year 2022, the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac tells the story of his life to renown journalist Daniel Molloy. Beginning in 1910 New Orleans, Louis forms a vampire family with the vampire Lestat, complete with teen fledgling, Claudia.
16) Monster's ball
Publisher
Studio S
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
Hank and Leticia inhabit stark, queasy realities of the contemporary South, he as a death row corrections officer and she as the soon-to-be widow of an inmate whose execution Hank helps conduct. In the aftermath of the execution, both lose their children to tragic deaths and they form an unlikely bond.
17) The hate u give
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures from all sides of the community, Starr tries to find her voice in order to stand up for what's right.
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