Forty Acres & a Mule Filmworks.
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unprecedented inside look at a day in the life of this basketball superstar as he prepares for one of the biggest games of the season, from the locker room to being on the court.
2) Malcolm X
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(201 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.
3) Oldboy
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kidnapped and kept in solitary confinement for 20 years, Joe Doucett has suddenly been set free without a word of explanation. Obsessed with finding those who imprisoned him, Doucett wreaks havoc upon his captors, unaware his freedom is part of a plan and his true punishment's about to begin.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Tensions are growing, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie is Sal's delivery boy. Radio Raheem has the letters of love and hate written on his hands. He is defiant and together with a motivated Buggin Out, push Sal and his sons to their breaking point. The cops intervene, using force and brutality to apprehend the large...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 256 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four acts document distinct perspectives on the pivotal events that preceded and followed Katrina's passage through New Orleans, a catastrophe during which the divide between race and class lines has never been more pronounced.
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (102 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a bomb tore through the basement of a black Baptist church on a peaceful fall morning, it took the lives of four young girls. This racially motivated hate crime fueled a nation's outrage and brought Birmingham, Alabama to the forefront of America's concern during the early years of the civil rights struggle.
9) The best man
Pub. Date
c2000.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Scandalous secrets from the past begin to reveal themselves when a commitment-shy writer and his old college buddies reunite for a wedding.
10) Get on the bus
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dives straight into the fascinating controversy of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March and the larger question of what it means to be a black man in modern America. The film follows a group of different men traveling from Los Angeles to the march in Washington D.C. On the way, they will make friends, make enemies, and make history.
11) 25th hour
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Monty Brogan is facing a seven year prison sentence for dealing drugs. On the night before he has to go to prison, he decides to go out with his friends one last time, and re-examines his life in the process.
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
August 1944. Follows four black soldiers of the all-black 92nd Infantry Division who get trapped near the small Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema on the Gothic Line during the Italian Campaign of World War II. One of the men will risk his life to save an Italian boy who lives in the city where the Waffen-SS have massacred most of the citizens of the town in retaliation for Italian partisan activity.
13) Blackkklansman
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (Blu-ray) (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and became the head of the local chapter.