Leslie Uggams
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Language
English
Description
March, 1850. In the tense days before the Civil War, a slave breakout in the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore sets loose a riveting drama of violence, hope, and redemption among slave catchers, plantation owners, watermen, runaway slaves, and free blacks. Liz Spocott, a beautiful runaway slave, shot and near death, is wracked by disturbing visions of the future as she lies shackled to an old woman in the prison attic of the notorious...
2) The Ravine
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English
Description
An unspeakable crime rocks a peaceful suburb, leaving family and friends to wonder if they overlooked the murderer among them. Inspired by true events, this haunting thriller stars Eric Dane, Teri Polo, and Peter Facinelli.
3) Nanny
Series
Criterion collection volume 1196
Language
Multiple
Description
Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant, takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City. Separated from her son and casually exploited by her employers, Aisha finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage, one that could either destroy or empower her.
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English
Description
Monk is a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish Black book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
7) Nanny
Series
Criterion collection volume 1196
Language
English
Description
A spellbinding blend of social observation and artful shocks, the debut feature from Nikyatu Jusu plunges into the increasingly fractured consciousness of Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant who takes a job as a nanny for a wealthy white family in New York City. Separated from her son and casually exploited by her employers, Aisha finds herself consumed by unsettling visions and a growing rage one that could either destroy or empower her. This visually...
8) Toe to toe
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English
Description
Tosha is an African-American scholarship student from Anacostia, one of Washington`s poorest areas. Jesse is a troubled and promiscuous white girl from the ritzy suburbs of Maryland. The two forge a close and genuine bond on the lacrosse field, but their friendship unravels as they navigate through race and class-related obstacles. When Jesse and Tosha discover that they've both been dating the same boy, the conflict becomes explosive.
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English
Description
Leslie Uggams is celebrating Christmas on Sesame Street. But since Oscar the Grouch is being a right old scrooge, she decides to teach him a lesson by imploring Anne Murray, Imogen Coca and Dickie Smothers to pose as the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. Have a hot cocoa with Henry Fonda. Michael Jackson helps Oscar to understand the Spirit of Christmas.
11) Skyjacked
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English
Description
"Hank O'Hara is as good a pilot as they come. He knows how to handle an airliner in turbulent skies. How to settle the big bird down like a baby put to bed. But now he faces the unexpected. He's been skyjacked. A story about a deranged war vet who demands that a Minneapolis-bound flight makes a slight detour -- to Moscow. All that stands between the terrified passengers and doom is the steely resolve of Captain O'Hara"--Container.
12) Roots
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
13) Roots
Language
English
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Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Language
English
Description
Roots, adapted from the Alex Haley novel that traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors was captured and sold into slavery. Follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boy's abduction in Africa to America and continued throughout the generations that followed.
Roots, the next generations follows the Haley family from the post-Civil War era until the more contemporary but still turbulent time of the 1960s...