Bokeem Woodbine
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Elegance Bratton's deeply moving film inspired by his own story, a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside. But even as he battles deep-seated prejudice and the grueling routines of basic training, he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength, and support in this new community, giving him a hard-earned sense...
2) Overlord
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (109 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
D-Day looms, and two soldiers are prepared to sacrifice their own lives to the noble cause of bringing down the Nazis. They have a secret mission to perform when they sneak into a Nazi-occupied town, but they do not realize what kind of a time they are in for. Not only is their mission dangerous by conventional means, but it has a supernatural element to it that makes their blood run cold. Can they successfully thwart the plot unfolding in front of...
3) Ray
Language
English
Description
Ray Charles was born in a poor predominantly black town in central Florida. He went blind at the age of 7. With the staunch support of his determined single mother, he developed a fierce resolve. He had wit and incredible talent which would eventually enable him to overcome not only Jim Crow racism and the cruel prejudices against the blind, but also discover his own sound which revolutionized American popular music. Nonetheless, as Ray's unprecedented...
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs in 2 separate volumes (DVD) (576 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Grace Hanadarko is a hard-living Oklahoma City detective whose life is careening out of control. Grace is given a second chance in the unlikely form of a gruff, tobacco-chewing angel named Earl. But turning her life around won't be easy. As dark secrets are revealed, Grace must come to grips with her explosive past and she's going to need her last-chance-angel more than ever.
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs in 3 separate volumes (DVD) (approximately 836 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
All of your burning questions are finally answered in the electrifying final season of the emotionally gripping and darkly humorous show. Grace Hanadarko is the hard-living detective with an angel on her shoulder. As she continues her relentless search for the truth she faces homicides, bombings, a mysterious girl in a coma, and a miraculous near-death experience.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (455 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After years of human civil war and growing political unrest, mankind's very future is threatened when our outermost colonies intrude upon the sacred worlds of the Covenant a fanatical powerful alliance of alien species. As the Covenant destroys world after human world only one soldier slows their advance a cybernetically enhanced 'Spartan' supersoldier, the Master Chief. But as the incredible mystery of the Covenant's true ambition, and the secrets...
7) Riddick
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (1 hr., 59 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A dangerous, escaped convict wanted by every bounty hunter in the known galaxy, Riddick has been left for dead on a sun-scorched planet that appears to be lifeless. ... The only way off is for him to activate an emergency beacon and alert mercenaries who rapidly descend to the planet in search of their bounty"--Container.
9) Queen & Slim
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man and a black woman, are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results, when the man kills the police officer in self-defense. Terrified and in fear for their lives, the man, a retail employee, and the woman, a criminal defense lawyer, are forced to go on the run. But the incident is captured on video and goes viral, and the couple unwittingly...
10) Riddick
Language
English
Description
A dangerous, escaped convict wanted by every bounty hunter in the known galaxy, Riddick has been left for dead on a sun-scorched planet that appears to be lifeless. Soon, however, he finds himself fighting for survival against alien predators more lethal than any human he's encountered. The only way off is for him to activate an emergency beacon and alert mercenaries who rapidly descend to the planet in search of their bounty. With time running out...
12) The breed
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An FBI agent and his synthetic-blood sucking vampire partner are assigned to track down a renegade human-blood sucking vampire who is determined to trigger a war between the "breeds". Neither men easily fits into the other's world and they must work together in order to restore harmony.