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41) Chinese Couplets
Publisher
Lowedown Productions
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Part memoir, part history, part investigation, Chinese Couplets spans two centuries, three countries and four generations of women in this intimate story that reveals the impact of America's Chinese Exclusion Acts on journalist filmmaker Felicia Lowe's family. Lowe offers a nuanced, engaging approach to the debate that details the long-term, multi-generational effects of ethnically motivated immigration policies while imparting a cautionary tale of...
42) Nana
Publisher
Birkhall Enterprises
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Live-in nannies Leidy, Fina and Clara leave their children in distant towns to be raised by relatives while they move away to the city to care for somebody else's child. In a love chain, where mother figures are substituted and duplicated, bonds grow strong between kids and their nannies, and between the nannies' children and the grandmothers or aunts who care for them. Is there just one way of defining motherly love? Going back and forth between...
43) Jackie Robinson
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose from humble origins to cross baseball's color line and become one of the most beloved men in America. A fierce integrationist, Robinson used his immense fame to speak out against the discrimination he saw on and off the field, angering fans, the press, and even teammates who had once celebrated him for "turning the other cheek."After baseball, he was a widely-read newspaper columnist, divisive political activist and tireless...
Publisher
Lowedown Productions
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
Felicia Lowe's search for the roots of her father's family has resulted in a warm, insightful portrait of Mainland China in 1979. Her journey takes us through the streets of Beijing where street dialogues reveal the curiosity of local people about the lives of the Chinese in America to a conversation with an English-speaking woman who, like Lowe, is a working mother, but it is the landscapes in the faces of her aunts, uncles, cousins and 85-year-old...
45) Forbidden
Publisher
Sisters Unite Productions & Pony Pictures
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This film is about an inspiring young man whose story is exceptional, although not unique. When Moises Serrano was just a baby, his parents risked everything to flee Mexico in search of the American dream. Forbidden to live and love as an undocumented gay man in the country he calls home, Serrano saw only one option: to fight for justice. Serrano is like the thousands of other young people growing up in the United States with steadfast dreams but...
Publisher
Imagine Video Productions
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It is the story of a community's struggle for justice; with roots extending to the town of Abbeville, South Carolina and the horrific lynching of one of its prominent citizens, Anthony Crawford...It is the story of Crawford's granddaughter, great-granddaughter, and great, great-granddaughter working alongside the families of Emmett Till, Michael Schwerener, James Earl Chaney, and Andrew Goodman to gain passage of United States Senate Resolution 39,...
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In 1918, not yet citizens of the United States, Choctaw members of the American Expeditionary Forces were asked by the government to use their Native language as a powerful tool against the German Forces in World War I, setting a precedent for code talking as an effective military weapon and establishing them as America's Original Code Talkers.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Robinson uses his fame to speak out against injustice, alienating many who had once lauded him for "turning the other cheek."After baseball, he seeks ways to fight inequality, but as he faces a crippling illness, he struggles to remain relevant.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The battle between pro-slavery and free-soil contingents rises to fever pitch. During his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown is captured, then executed, becoming a martyr for the cause. Abraham Lincoln is elected president in 1860. Southern states secede, war breaks out and the conflict unexpectedly drags on. On New Year's Day 1863, it is announced that Lincoln has emancipated the slaves in rebel territory. African-American men may now enlist in the...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Shared beliefs about slavery bring together Angelina Grimke, the daughter of a Charleston plantation family, who moves north and becomes a public speaker against slavery; Frederick Douglass, a young slave who becomes hopeful when he hears about the abolitionists; William Lloyd Garrison, who founds the newspaper The Liberator, a powerful voice for the movement; Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose first trip to the South changes her life and her writing; and...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Douglass escapes slavery, eventually joining Garrison in the anti-slavery movement. Threatened with capture by his former owner, Douglass flees to England, returning to the U.S. in 1847. He launches his own anti-slavery paper. John Brown meets with Douglass, revealing his radical plan to raise an army, attack plantations and free the slaves. Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. A best-seller, and then wildly successful stage...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Vividly bringing to life the epic struggles of the men and women who fought to end slavery, THE ABOLITIONISTS tells the intertwined stories of Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Angelina Grimke, Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Brown. Fighting body and soul, they led the most important civil rights crusade in American history. What began as a pacifist movement became a fiery and furious struggle that forever changed the nation. Black and white,...
Publisher
EPF Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Before there was a Civil Rights Movement in the Unites States of America, there were the actions of the Tuskegee Airmen. Many African American men and women were aviators in the early 1930's, but established military policy forbade them from flying. However, as World War II loomed, there was heavy pressure from black organizations and leaders such as the NAACP, A. Phillip Randolph (head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping-Car Porter's Union), Dr. W.E.B....
55) Urban Rez
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
URBAN REZ explores the controversial legacy and modern-day repercussions of the Urban Relocation Program (1952-1973), the greatest voluntary upheaval of Native Americans during the 20th century. During the documentary, dozens of American Indians representing tribal groups from across the West recall their first-hand experiences with relocation, including the early hardships, struggles with isolation and racism. Interviewees also speak about the challenges...
56) Being n
Publisher
Just Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Being n explores the distinct, shared experience of 16 million people living in the U.S. today called Enyes (n)s. Enyes (n)s are first generation American-born Latinos with at least one parent from a Spanish -speaking country. A central theme of many Enyes' experience growing up in the U.S. is not feeling fully connected with either the mainstream American culture or with the culture of their parent's country of origin...The short subject documentary...
Publisher
Kareron
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The French government wants to dismantle the Calais jungle. Will the volunteer-run Chemin des Dunes school, opened on February 6, be spared? Video games expert Isabelle Arvers is made a machinima documentary with the refugees. In a little less than a year together, and with the help of numerous French and especially British NGOs, the refugees of the jungle have built what has become a city-world, populated by places of worship, shops, services, restaurants,...
58) Hi, Neighbor
Publisher
SPIA Media Productions
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Thisexperimental short film is about a little girl who lost her home to urban renewal, and asks her wealthy neighbor, "why?"The film is aprequel to Andrade-Watkins' documentary trilogy about the Cape Verdean community in FoxPoint. "Hi, Neighbor"had its world premiere at the 2011 Cape Verdean International Film Festival and was awarded Jury Selection (first prize), in the 2012 Black Maria Film Festival.
59) Destiny
Publisher
Lobodocs
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This visually stunning documentary tackles the path of a 21 century woman gypsy in Northern Spain. Overcoming poverty and prejudice, she graduated from the prestigious Salamanca University and became a social worker. It is a journey of empowerment, commitment and joy. From the microcosm of this young energetic woman, we approach issues that are paramount for human survival in the new millennium: tolerance, diversity, dignity, and an uplifting attitude...
60) Building Babel
Publisher
Seventh Art Releasing Exclusive
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The story of Sharif El-Gamal, developer of the 'Ground Zero Mosque' in Lower Manhattan. With unfettered and exclusive access to Sharif's life and family over the course of two years, the film tracks Sharif's struggle to bring his project, a controversial Muslim community center two blocks from the site of Ground Zero, to fruition. Told in observational style, Building Babel is a portrait of American identity ten years on from September 11th - who...
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