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1) Selma
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Columbia Pike - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA SELMA
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DVD DRAMA SELMA
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
Series
Criterion collection volume 360
Description
A fiction/documentary hybrid that blurs the line between reality and fiction, yet remains a tightly focused movie about making movies.
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The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: Being a better son to his mother, being a better partner to his girlfriend, and being a better father to T, their beautiful four-year-old daughter. He starts out well, but as the day goes on, he realizes that change is not going to...
Description
A young black woman falls in love with a cute white woman.
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Central - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA LOSIN
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DVD DRAMA LOSIN
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Central - Recently Returned
DVD DRAMA LOSIN
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DVD DRAMA LOSIN
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Description
"Losing Ground tells the story of a marriage of two remarkable people, both at a crossroads in their lives. Sara Rogers, a black professor of philosophy, is embarking on an intellectual quest to understand 'ecstasy' just as her painter husband Victor sets off on a more earthly exploration of joy"--Container.
6) Eve's bayou
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Eve's family seems perfect until she catches her doctor father more than just examining one of his patients and Eve's tormented by the family secrets that come out.
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Central - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA MARAT DIREC
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DVD DRAMA MARAT DIREC
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Courthouse - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA MARAT DIREC
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DVD DRAMA MARAT DIREC
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Description
Disc 1. Daughters of the dust : Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk ways were maintained well into the twentieth century and was one of the last bastions of these mores in America. Disc 2. Eve's bayou : Roz Batiste is a beautiful and dedicated mother of three, who is forced to admit that her family is falling apart due to her philandering husband Louis. Her younger daughter,...
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Cherrydale - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA MARAT SPIKE
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DVD DRAMA MARAT SPIKE
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Columbia Pike - Recently Returned
DVD DRAMA MARAT SPIKE
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DVD DRAMA MARAT SPIKE
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Description
Disc 1. Blackkklansman : "In the early 1970s, Ron Stallworth becomes the first African-American detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to make a difference, he bravely sets out on a dangerous mission: infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan. He recruits a seasoned colleague, Flip Zimmerman, into the undercover investigation. Together, they team up to take down the extremist organization aiming to garner mainstream appeal. BlacKkKlansman...
Description
A sharp and funny comedy about a group of African-American students as they navigate campus life and racial boundaries at a predominately white college. A sly, provocative satire about being a black face in a white place.
10) Get out
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Aurora Hills - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA GETOU
1 available
DVD DRAMA GETOU
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Cherrydale - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA GETOU
1 available
DVD DRAMA GETOU
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Glencarlyn - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA GETOU
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DVD DRAMA GETOU
1 available
Description
A young black man meets his white girlfriend's parents at their estate, only to find out that the situation is much more sinister than it appears.
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Central - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DOCS IAMNO
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DVD DOCS IAMNO
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Cherrydale - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DOCS IAMNO
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DVD DOCS IAMNO
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An Oscar-nominated documentary narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO explores the continued peril America faces from institutionalized racism. In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends--Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the...
12) Fences
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Central - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA FENCE
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DVD DRAMA FENCE
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Aurora Hills - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA FENCE
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DVD DRAMA FENCE
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Westover - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA FENCE
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DVD DRAMA FENCE
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A black garbage collector named Troy Maxson in 1950s Pittsburgh is bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues, Maxson is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
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A timeless love story set in early 1970s Harlem involving newly engaged nineteen-year- old Tish and her fiance Fonny who have a beautiful future ahead. But their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Now the pair and their families must fight for justice in the name of love and the promise of the American dream.
14) The hate U give
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Central - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA HATEU
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DVD DRAMA HATEU
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Glencarlyn - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA HATEU
1 available
DVD DRAMA HATEU
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Westover - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA HATEU
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DVD DRAMA HATEU
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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.
15) Boyz 'n the hood
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Shirlington - Adult DVD/ Blu-ray
DVD DRAMA BOYZN
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DVD DRAMA BOYZN
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Description
For three young men growing up in South Central Los Angeles, the "hood" is a place of drive-by shootings, unemployment, drugs and pain. But their reactions to the world around them vary-- one is an unambitious drug dealer, his brother is a college bound teenage father, and the brother's best friend is guided by a strong father who hopes for a better life for his son.
16) Training day
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Jake Hoyt, a fresh-faced rookie in the Los Angeles Police Department, gets a chance to join the elite narcotics squad headed up by 13-year veteran Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris. Jake is to prove himself during a one-day ride-along. As the day wears on, it becomes increasingly clear that Detective Harris has blurred the line between right and wrong to an alarming degree, enforcing his own code of ethics and street justice. Eventually, Hoyt begins...
17) pariah
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18) Little Woods
Description
Ollie is barely getting by in an economically depressed fracking boomtown in North Dakota. She has left her days of illegally running prescription pills over the Canadian border behind, eyeing a potential new job that would finally break her out of the small town. But when her mother dies, she is reunited with her estranged sister Deb, who faces a mounting crisis: the combined effect of an unplanned pregnancy and a deadbeat ex.
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The story of Noni, the music world's latest superstar. But not all is what it seems, and the pressures of fame have Noni on the edge - until she meets Kaz Nicol, a young cop and aspiring politician who's been assigned to her detail. Drawn to each other, Noni and Kaz fall fast and hard, despite the protests of those around them who urge them to put their career ambitions ahead of their romance.
Description
Story of a large African-American family as they prepare to move North from the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia at the dawn of the 20th century.