Maya Angelou
83) The black candle
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A documentary about the struggle and triumph of African-American family, community, and culture.
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Features Gates guiding eleven other African Americans on a search for their ancestry while exploring the history of African Americans from the Middle Passage and slavery to the early 20th century. Shows how genealogical investigations and DNA analysis help Maya Angelou, Bliss Broyard, Don Cheadle, Morgan Freeman, Peter Gomes, Kathleen Henderson, Linda Johnson Rice, Tom Joyner, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Chris Rock, Tina Turner, and Gates himself discover...
86) America's dream
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In "Long black song, " a hard-working farmer invests what little he has in a gift for his wife, while back home, she falls for the advances of a traveling salesman. A small-town principal risks his career to defend a young boy's image of a black Christ painted for a state-wide competition in "The boy who painted Christ black." A jazz-joint piano player in "The Reunion" comes to terms with prejudices that have haunted her since childhood, when she...
88) The runaway
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Luke Winter and Joshua Monroe grow up as best friends in a rural Georgia town in the 1940's. On one of their youthful adventures they uncover a human bone. Their discovery leads the town's new sheriff to reopen an investigation of the unsolved murders of three black men. As he doggedly pursues the case, however, he learns that most of the townspeople would prefer the truth stay hidden.
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I am somebody : Records the 1969 strike by black, predominantly female, hospital workers in Charleston, S.C. for better working conditions and higher wages. Shows how the struggle was won by a coalition of local and national union and civil rights groups plus the local black community through nonviolent marches and demonstrations. Highlights Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, Ralph Abernathy, and Walter Reuther speaking and working in defense of the...
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Explores how one extraordinary song has changed people's lives through hope, faith, optimism, and the power of music to inspire and heal. This weaves together unforgettable stories of how Lee Ann Womack's worldwide #1 hit has motivated real people to transform their lives, chase their dreams, overcome obstacles and to persist in the face of the most extreme adversities.
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"A mismatched pair pushed together for a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland, Justice and Lucky have only one thing in common: they can't stand each other. But as their friends Iesha and Chicago fight, and make up, in the back of the van, Justice and Lucky find themselves reluctantly drawn together before being confronted once again by the shocking violence they thought they'd left behind"--Container.
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A once-in-a-generation innovator, changing the game and inspiring everyone who came after him, Richard's intimate storytelling made the world feel like we knew him and loved him. Richard Pryor lived his life out loud, sharing the pain of the lowest lows and dazzling us from the highest heights. There's simply never been a comedian like Richard: genius, outrageously funny, and perfectly human.
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Down in the delta : A troubled single mother from a tough Chicago neighborhood is sent to spend a summer at her family's home in rural Mississippi. Sarafina! : In a world where truth is forbidden, an inspiring teacher dares to instill in her students lessons not found in schoolbooks. In doing so, she challenges their freedom and hers.
100) Roots
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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.