Blair Underwood
Publisher
A & E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie, and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for freedom from the confines of the house and begs her son to take her on a visit to her hometown of Bountiful. When he refuses, Mrs. Watts is undeterred and makes an escape to the local bus station, where she befriends Thelma, a young woman traveling home.
3) Just cause
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A Harvard Law School professor reopens a murder investigation on behalf of a Death Row inmate who claims he was forced by a sinister lawman to confess to a crime he didn't commit. On the surface, it seems to be a straight-ahead case of the prisoner's guilt or innocence. But nothing really lies on the surface of this mystery, set in the Florida swamplands.
Publisher
Array Releasing
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Maye is a success. Hot career. Hot boyfriend. But when her world is turned upside down by tragedy, she must struggle to keep her balance. Hailed by critic Roger Ebert as "... one of the best films I've seen about the loss of a loved one," Ava DuVernay's directorial debut I WILL FOLLOW chronicles a day in the life of a women at a crossroads, and the twelve people who help her move forward into a brave, new world.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In 1964, members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three civil rights workers who had traveled to the South to encourage African-American voter registration. Examines the last three weeks in the lives of the slain activists.
7) Set it off
Publisher
New Line Productions
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Four poor black women try to get some payback from the social system which has abused them by a staging a series of bank robberies.
8) Longlegs
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In pursuit of a serial killer, an FBI agent uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Discover the astonishing, inspirational, and largely unknown true story of the eighteen African American athletes who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, defying the racism of both Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South." -- Publisher annotation.
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