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Pub. Date
2017
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Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
2) The help
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Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
Series
Video volume 33
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Examines the story of the Chican@ movement in Colorado and New Mexico and explores the importance of student activism.
Pub. Date
2017
Description
"May 27, 1974, Boulder, Colorado. Neva Romero, a young University of Colorado student is killed along with two other Chicano Rights activists. Forty-eight hours later, three more Chicanos are killed. They become known as Los Seis de Boulder. Neva Romero: Jamas Olvidados examines the committed young activists who would forever change El Movimiento."--Insert in container.
8) All The Way
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Bryan Cranston stars in a riveting look at the formidable challenges and demons faced by President Lyndon Johnson on his tumultuous first year in office, from his accidental ascension to the presidence in November 1963, to his relentless fight to win passage of a landmark Civil Rights Bill with the election of 1964 looming.
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Focusing on unearthed military training footage of Army-built model towns called "Riotsvilles," where military and police were trained to respond to civil disorder, director Sierra Pettengill reconstructs the formation of a national consciousness obsessed with maintaining law and order by any means necessary. Drawing insight from a time similar to our own, the film pulls focus on American institutional control; how it's constructed and how it manages...
11) Freedom Song
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Stirring account of the civil rights struggle in the early 1960s, based on first-hand recollections of veteran activists, burning with realism, commitment, and the urgency of the lives in crisis.
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Follow the courageous journey of John Lewis, a civil rights hero, congressional leader, and human rights champion whose unwavering fight for justice spans the past 50 years. The son of sharecroppers, Lewis grew up in the segregated South and rose from Alabama's Black Belt to the corridors of power on Capitol Hill. His humble origins have forever linked him to those whose voices often go unheard.
13) The chamber
Pub. Date
1996.
Description
A Mississippi Klan member is accused of bombing the office of a civil rights activist. The first two trials result in a hung jury, but twelve years later a re-trial results in a death sentence. Years later, within weeks of the scheduled execution, a new lawyer requests to work on the case.
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Chronicles the ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, and how they are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
"The Watsons are a fine family to spend two hours with..."--Hollywood Reporter
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
The story of the American civil rights movement through its music, the freedom songs protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, and more, as they fought for justice and equality. Includes new performances of the freedom songs by top artists, archival footage, and interviews with civil rights foot soldiers and leaders. Freedom songs evolved from slave chants, from the labor movement, and even from the black church.
Pub. Date
�2008
Description
French connection: Popeye Doyle is a police detective out to bust an international narcotics ring.
Hoosiers: A basketball coach with a checkered past leads him to a last-chance position with a last-chance team.
Mississippi burning: Set in Mississippi in 1964, this is a fictionalized version of the case of the murder of three young civil rights workers, the FBI's attempts to find the missing boys and the clash between the authorities and the locals...