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3) Memory House
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
In this audacious debut feature, João Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam (played by Cinema Novo icon Antônio Pitanga), an Indigenous Black man from the rural North, moves to an industrialized Southern town populated by the descendants of Austrian ex-pats to work in a milk factory. Immediately confronted with their virulent racism, he becomes more and more estranged from the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The play, Sizwe Bansi is dead, follows the main character, Sizwe, as he writes to his wife after an unsuccessful search for a new job and better life for his family. This film places the viewer in the discussions between Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona as they attempt to explain and re-write the play. Director: Peter Davis.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of Citizen. The White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act play, for all the characters' disagreements, stalemates, and seeming impasses, explore what happens if one is willing to stay in the room when it is painful to bear the pressure to listen and the obligation...
8) Fences
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
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.
9) Selma
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
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.
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?], c1991
Language
English
Description
A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results.
11) Without pity
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Italiano
Description
As World War II ends, some African-American soldiers refuse to abandon northern Italy to return to the United States, due to the racial intolerance there, deserting instead.
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.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Set in Mississippi in 1964, this controversial film is based on the true story of the case of three young civil rights workers (in real life they were named James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner) who were brutally murdered in June of 1964. The chaotic aftermath was dubbed Mississippi Burning. This movie is told from the perspective of the FBI's operations to uncover evidence and bring the killers to justice. Anger over the real...
14) A time to kill
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A small-town lawyer is hired to defend an African American man who is accused of killing the white men who raped his young daughter.
15) Trouble in mind
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Following the rehearsal process for a new Broadway production of an anti-lynching play, Alice Childress's wry and moving look at racism, identity, and ego in the world of New York theater opened to acclaim off-Broadway in 1955. When Wiletta, a Black actress and veteran of the stage, challenges the play's stereotypical portrayal of the Black characters, unsettling biases come to the forefront and reveal the ways so-called progressive art can be used...
16) White girl
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Equipped with platinum blond hair and a winning smile, NYC college girl Leah seeks out pleasure in any form. Between getting high with her roommate and snorting lines with her boss, Leah falls for Blue, a young man dealing drugs on her corner. Within days, the two are selling dime bags to her boss and his downtown friends, and living the high life. Summer love crashes to a halt when Blue is arrested and Leah is left with a serious bag of his coke....
17) Trial
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A hispanic boy is accused of killing a white girl. Although the boy is innocent, his trial is more about his race than the evidence. So as the hearing begins, law professor David Blake, and attorney Barney Castle, work to represent the boy. The professor tries to save his life, while the attorney hopes to use the boy's hanging as a tool to ignite the Communist party.
18) Trick baby
Publisher
Scorpion Releasing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A pair of African-American con artists, one can pass for white, enables the two to pull off any number of clever race-related scams.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. As he struggles to reconnect with his family and reconstruct the community he longs for, his hopes blind him to the reality of his situation.
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