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1) The chamber
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Adam Hall is an idealistic young attorney who takes on the death row clemency case of his one-time Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall. With just 28 days before the execution, Adam sets out to retrace the events leading to the crime for which Sam was convicted. As the impending death sentence looms closer, Adam works quickly to uncover the family's history for any hidden clues. In a white-knuckle series of twists and turns, Adam discovers deceptions...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
This inspirational documentary is about a band of courageous civil-rights activists calling themselves the Freedom Riders. Gaining impressive access to influential figures on both sides of the issue, it chronicles a chapter of American history that stands as an astonishing testament to the accomplishment of youth and what can result from the incredible combination of personal conviction and the courage to organize against all odds.
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
As a white girl growing up in the south, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland witnessed the ugly realities of segregation and racism firsthand and vowed to one day change it. By the time she was 19, she had already joined the Freedom Riders and participated in over three dozen sit-ins and protests. Now, over 50 years later, award-winning filmmaker Loki Mulholland captures his mother's story and learns about her courage and the role she played in changing American...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
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.
Series
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In 1965, 21-year-old Torontonian, Paul Saltzman drove to Mississippi, volunteering as a civil rights worker with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. He was arrested, spending ten days in jail. He was assaulted by a young Klansman. In 2007, Saltzman returned to find the KKK member who had punched him in the head, to explore if individual reconciliation was possible. He found him and a five year dialogue has ensued. Featuring interviews...
8) Citizen King
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
This story begins on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 when a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism. It comes to a bloody end almost five years later on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. In the years since those events unfloded, the man at the center, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has become a mythic figure, a minister whose oratory is etched into the minds of millions of Americans,...
Publisher
California Newsreel
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Offers the first comprehensive look at race relations in America between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. This definitive four-part series documents the context in which the laws of segregation known as the "Jim Crow" system originated and developed.
14) Rio Escondido
Series
Publisher
Excalibur Media Group
Pub. Date
2004
Language
Español
Description
The drama of a town's fight against injustice, hunger, and death. A frail young teacher is sent to Rio Escondido by the President, to investigate the living conditions and corrupt bureaucracies of the countryside. She arrives to find that a bully has seized control of the town. She turns her teaching to show the townspeople how to defend themselves and battle for their rights. The film originally contained a short color sequence featuring Diego Rivera's...
15) MLK/FBI
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Explores the FBI's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr., based on declassified documents and incorporating archival footage.
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
From the fight to abolish slavery in the 1800's to the efforts to stop segregation in the 1900's, this program chronicles the civil rights movement in America. Viewers will learn about the courageous leaders of the civil rights movement who led the fight for freedom and fairness for all Americans.
17) Welcome to Leith
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[[2015] 2015]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Leith chronicles the attempted takeover of a small town in North Dakota by notorious white supremacist Craig Cobb. As his behavior becomes more threatening, tensions soar, and the residents desperately look for ways to expel their unwanted neighbor. With incredible access to both longtime residents of Leith and white supremacists, the film examines a small community in the plains struggling for sovereignty against an extermist vision."--Contatiner....
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Two extraordinary women-Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dr. Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X-come to life in this Lifetime Movie Network movie. After their husbands' tragic assassinations, they developed a unique friendship spanning three decades as they carried on the Civil Rights movement while supporting their families as single mothers. Through their strength and dignity, they became role models for millions of women.
19) MLK/FBI
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Explores the FBI's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr., based on declassified documents and incorporating archival footage.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the midst of riots, rebellion, and revolution of the 1960s, a reluctant soldier finds himself in the center of two wars. Randy is ripped from the front lines of the civil rights struggle and thrust into the war in Vietnam to battle for his life. An explosive story of one man's coming of age during the assassinations, protest, and war that defined the 60's and changed the world.
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