African-Americans in thoroughbred racing. 1993. Louisville, KY: Kentucky Derby Museum. videorecording.
Educates students about the significant contributions made by African Americans to the thoroughbred racing industry.
[developed and published by the Education Department of the Kentucky Derby Museum].
"Sponsored by Duracell U.S.A."
Akeelah and the bee. 2006. Santa Monica, CA: Lions Gate Home Entertainment. videorecording.
Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She is a smart girl, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah decides to participate in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from Dr. Larabee, an English professor, for the more prestigious regional bee. As the possibility of making it all the way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee looms, Akeelah could provide her community with someone to rally around and be proud of. First Akeelah has to overcome her insecurities, her distracting home life, and the knowledge that there is a field of more experienced and privileged fellow spellers.
Akeelah and the bee (Motion picture)
Lionsgate, 2929 Productions and Starbucks Entertainment present an Out of the Blue Entertainment and Reactor Films production in association with Cinema Gypsy Productions, Inc.; produced by Laurence Fishburne, Sid Ganis, Nancy Hult Ganis, Daniel Llewelyn, Michael Romersa; written and directed by Doug Atchison.
Special features: Making of 'Akeelah and the bee'; Two peas in a pod; Inside the mind of Akeelah; Keke Palmer "All My Girlz' music video; Gag reel; Deleted scenes.
Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Curtis Armstrong, J.R. Villarreal, Sean Michael, Sahara Garey, Lee Thompson Young.
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Beyond the steps: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. 2006. United States: Dance Philm. videorecording.
Follows the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater as they move into a new facility in New York City and Artistic Director Judith Jamison creates a new ballet entitled Love stories.
produced and directed by Phil Bertelsen; a co-production of Dance Philm and Thirteen/WNET New York in association with National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC).
Originally broadcast in 2006 as an episode of Dance in America in the Great performances series.
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The Charlie Rose show. 2005. United States: Public Broadcasting Service. videorecording.
Charlie Rose interviews retired professor of history, John Hope Franklin. Discussion topics include Franklin's childhood in rural Oklahoma, his involvement in the civil rights movement, his career in Duke University, and race relations in America as he sees them.
Thirteen WNET New York, Public Broadcasting Service; director, Mike Jay; producers, Victoria Brown. [et al.].
Episode #548.
Host, Charlie Rose; interviewee, John Hope Franklin.
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February one. 2004. San Francisco: California Newsreel. videorecording.
"February One tells the inspiring story of four remarkable young men who initiated the lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, NC on February 1, 1960. Based largely on first hand accounts and rare archival footage, the film documents one volatile winter in Greensboro that not only challenged public accommodation customs and law in North Carolina, but served as a blueprint for the wave of non-violent civil rights protests that swept across the South and the nation throughout the 1960s"--Container.
Video Dialog Inc. presents; producer, Rebecca Cerese; writer/co-producer, Daniel Blake Smith.
February 1
DVD release of 2003 documentary film.
DVD includes full length version (57 min.) and abbreviated version (38 min.).
At beginning of presentation: ETV; Southern Lens; Video Dialog Inc. presents.
Narrator, Lesley Blair.
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The fight. 2004. United States: Paramount Home Entertainment. videorecording.
This documentary captures the anticipation that the bout between African American heavyweight Joe Louis and his German opponent Max Schmeling generated, the events leading up to it, the impact Louis's victory had on Blacks and its significance for Jews.
a Social Media Productions film for American experience in association with MDR/Arte and the BBC; written, produced, and directed by by Barak Goodman.
Narrator: Courtney B. Vance.
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Freedom's song: 100 years of African-American struggle and triumph. 2006. Los Angeles, Calif.: Farmer's Insurance Group. videorecording.
Ten episodes, one for each decade of the 20th century, highlight stories in African American history from the 20th century that were either omitted from or marginally discussed in history textbooks to date. A mini biography, Someone you should know, follows each decade's story to highlight the life of a significant historical figure of the decade. Segments are accompanied by individual lessons plans. This documentary/lesson plans curriculum was created for educational use by the Curriculum Design Team in the College of Education at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs headed by Dr. La Vonne I. Neal in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and Farmers Insurance Group. Using standards of the National Council for Social Studies and the culturally responsive teaching framework of Dr. Geneva Gay, each lesson combines historical scholarship with effective teaching methods.
Documentary.
Title from disc label.
"Made possible by Farmers Insurance Group in partnership with the American Association of School Administrators.sponsored by the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History"--Accompanying materials.
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God's gonna trouble the water. 1997. Columbia, SC: SCETV. videorecording.
The story of the Gullah people of coastal South Carolina and Georgia and how they forged a culture distinctly their own.
WJWJ; South Carolina Educational Television; produced and written by Teresa Bruce; directed by Paul Keyserling.
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The Ku Klux Klan: a secret history. 2002. New York, NY: A & E Television Networks: History Channel: Distributed in the U.S. by New Video Group. videorecording.
Presents a history of the Ku Klux Klan, from its beginnings after the Civil War to recent years, and its practices of terror against minorities.
produced by Termite Art Productions in association with Bill Brummel Productions for the History Channel; A & E Television Networks; written and produced by Bill Brummel.
Originally produced in 1996 and 1998.
Narrator, D. Paul Thomas.
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The language you cry in. 1998. San Francisco, Cal.: California Newsreel. videorecording.
Traces the history of a burial song of the Mende people brought by slaves to the rice plantations of the Southeast coast of the United States over two hundred years ago, and preserved among the Gullah people there. In the 1930s a pioneering Black linguist, Lorenzo Turner, recognized its origin, and in the 1990s scholars Joe Opala and Cynthia Schmidt discovered that the song was still remembered in a remote village in Sierra Leone. Dramatically demonstrates how African Americans retained links with their African past, and concludes with the visit of the Gullah family which had preserved the song to the Mende village, where villagers re-enact the ancient burial rites for them.
a film from California Newsreel; producer/directors, Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano.
This disc is a DVD-R and may fail to play on some DVD equipment.
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Liberia: America's stepchild. 2002. Alexandria, Va.: Distributed by PBS Home Video. videorecording.
From Haitian slave revolts and the American Colonization Society to the 1997 election of Charles Taylor to the presidency and his corrupt administration, this program looks at events leading up the founding of Liberia and its history up through the twentieth century.
written and directed by Nancee Oku Bright; a production of Grain Coast Productions for WGBH. Narrator, Nancee Oku Bright; scholars, Elwood Dunn, Mary Antoinette Brown Sherman, Patrick Burrows, Kenneth Best, and Ambassador Herbert Brewer.
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Many steps: the origin and evolution of African American collegiate stepping. 2002. United States: California Newsreel. videorecording.
"The origin and evolution of African American collegiate stepping is explored in this energetic and informative documentary. Stepping is a popular communal art form in which teams of young dancers compete, using improvisation, call and response, complex meters, propulsive rhythms and a percussive attack"--Container.
a Gorofa Entertainment production.
Origin and evolution of African American collegiate stepping
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Martin Luther King "I have a dream." 2005. Oak Forest, IL: MPI Home Video. videorecording.
I Have A Dream contains King's entire inspirational speech in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963.
"I have a dream"
Special features: "The big march" (1963); "March on Washington" (1963); "The march twenty years later" (1983).
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Martin Scorsese presents the blues: a musical journey. 2003. 1st ed. New York: Amistad
"A companion book to the PBS documentary series Martin Scorsese presents the blues: a musical journey"--Intro.
Preface / Foreword / Writing About the Blues: The Process / An Introductory Note / A Century of the Blues / "The St. Louis Blues" / "We Wear the Mask" / "Stones in My Passway" / "Dream Boogie" / "You Know I Love You" / "Prisoner's Talking Blues" / Feel Like Going Home / Son House: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning / "Hellhound on My Trail" / The Blues Avant-Garde / The Levee-Camp Holler / Muddy Waters: August 31, 1941 / A Riff on Reading Sterling Plumpp's Poetry / Thank God for Robert Johnson / Howlin' Wolf / Jim Dickinson and His Son Luther on Coming of Age in the North Mississippi Hill Country -- Why I Wear My Mojo Hand / Ali Farka Toure: Sound Travels / French Talking Blues / Warming by the Devil's Fire / Bessie Smith: Who Killed the Empress? / "Ma Rainey" / A Night With Bessie Smith / Billie Holiday / Early Downhome Blues Recordings / Let's Get Drunk and Truck: A Guide to the Party Blues / Remembering Robert Johnson /
The Devil's Son-in-Law / Hoboing With Big Joe / The Little Church / Down at the Cross / Redemption Song / "I (Too) Hear America Singing" / The Road to Memphis / Furry's Blues / Recalling Beale Street in Its Glory / Bobby "Blue" Bland: Love Throat of the Blues / "The River's Invitation" / On the Road with Louis Armstrong / Sam Phillips on Gutbucket Blues -- Wolf Live in '65 / The Soul of a Man / Visionary Blindness: Blind Lemon Jefferson and Other Vision-Impaired Bluesmen / "Blind Willie McTell" / Locating Lightnin' / Henry Thomas: Our Deepest Look at the Roots / Janie and Tea Cake / Photographer Peter Amft on J.B. Lenoir -- Driving Mr. James / Clifford Antone on Livin' and Lovin' the Blues -- Jimmie Vaughan on Being Born into the Blues -- Somethin' That Reach Back in Your Life / Goofathers and Sons / Muddy, Wolf, and Me: Adventures in the Blues Trade / Chicago Pep / Memphis Minnie and the Cutting Contest / Happy New Year! With Memphis Minnie /
Big Bill and Studs: A Friendship for the Ages / Chicago Blues, Sixties Style / Getting a Hit Blues Record / And It's Deep, Too / Between Muddy and the Wolf: Guitarist Hubert Sumlin / Me and Big Joe / Photographer Peter Amft on Chicago Bluesmen -- Buddy Guy Arrives in Chicago / The Gift / How I Met My Husband / Red, White and Blues / A Conversation With Eric Clapton / Big Bill Broonzy: Key to the Highway / The First Time I Met the Blues / The Rolling Stones Come Together / My Blues Band: The Rolling Stones / Piano Blues and Beyond / Our Ladies of the Keys: Blues and Gone / On Learning to Play the Blues / Powerhouse / Ray Charles Discovers the Piano / Finding Professor Longhair / Dr. John and Joel Dorn on New Orleans Piano Styles -- Marcia Ball on Big Easy Blues -- Chris Thomas King's Twenty-First-Century Blues / Shemekia Copeland on Her Melting-Pot Blues -- My Journey to the Blues / The Blues Is the Blood / Blues: The Footprints of Popular Music / Acknowledgments /
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Muhammad Ali: through the eyes of the world. 2001. Universal City, CA: Universal Studios. videorecording.
This documentary explores the public image that developed about Ali as his fame began to grow. producer, director, Phil Grabsky.
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Muhammad Ali: the whole story. 2001. Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video. videorecording.
The six episodes profile the life and career of Muhammad Ali.
Formatted to fit TV screen.
Episode 1. The beginning: Olympic gold -- Episode 2. The youngest heavyweight champion -- Episode 3. Exile -- Episode 4. The road back -- Episode 5. The rumble in the jungle -- Episode 6. The thrilla in Manila.
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Rosa Parks Capitol arrival. 2005. Washington, D.C.: C-SPAN. videorecording.
Appearances by Pres. George W. Bush; Laura Bush; Harold Carter; Pastor Daniel Couglhlin, Chaplain U.S. House of Representatives; Rosa Parks.
Description based on: DVD; Title from disc label.
Recorded in Washington, D.C. by C-SPAN in 2005.
Rosa Parks' remains arriving at the U>S. Capitol building prior to being left to lie in repose in the U.S. Capitol rotunda. She was the 29th person to be given such an honor, and the first woman. The Morgan State University Choir sang. Event Date: October 31, 2005.
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Rosa Parks lying in honor. 2005. Washington, D.C.: C-SPAN. videorecording.
Footage shows various activities in the Rotunda from approximately 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Eastersn Standard Time.
Description based on: DVD; Title from disc label.
Recorded in Washington, D.C. by C-SPAN October 31, 2005.
For a second day Ms. Parks was honored as mourners passed by her remains lying in repose in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Among those in attendance were government officials, dignitaries, civil rights leaders, and members of the general public. Following the public viewing the casket was carried to a hearse by a military honor guard, where the cortege then left for the Metropolitian A.M.E. Church for a memorial service.
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Rosa Parks memorial service. 2005. Washington, D.C.: C-SPAN. videorecording.
Televised coverage of the memorial service for civil rights legend Rosa Parks. Participants pay tribute to Ms. Parks as a catalyst of the civil rights movement, her legacy as a voice for the black community, and her service to the nation, in passionate speeches and with music.
[produced by] C-SPAN.
Julian Bond, Sam Brownback, Johnnie Carr, John Conyers, Cain Hope Felder, Ernest Green, Dorothy I. Height, Gwen Ifill, Edward M. Kennedy, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Cicely Tyson, Melvin Watt, Oprah Winfrey.
Shattering the silences. 1997. San Francisco, Calif.: California Newsreel. videorecording.
Explores issues of faculty diversity in American higher education in the mid-1990s, focusing on the experience of eight minority scholars in the humanities and social sciences at various institutions.
a production of Gail Pellett Productions, Inc.; produced and directed by Stanley Nelson, Gail Pellett; writers, Stanley Nelson, Gail Pellett.
Narrator: Lynne Thigpen.
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Small steps, big strides. 2005. United States: Image Entertainment. videorecording.
This tribute celebrates African American silver screen legends. Included are interviews and rare footage documenting the kinds of roles black actors were first given, the challenges these performers met, and the real behind-the-scenes story of their acceptance and triumphs in Hollywood.
Van Ness Films in association with Foxstar Productions. [et al.]; written, produced and directed by Velma Cato.
Black experience in Hollywood
Originally produced as a television documentary in 1998.
Narrated by Louis Gossett, Jr.; on-screen interviews with the Nicholas Brothers, Gregory Hines, Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Bobby Short and film historian Donald Bogle.
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Twelve disciples of Nelson Mandela. 2005. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel. videorecording.
"Confronted with the death of his stepfather, director Thomas Allen Harris embarks on a journey to understand the man who raised him, Pule Benjamin Leinaeng ("Lee") - an ANC foot-soldier who sacrificed his life for the freedom of his country. As part of the first wave of South African freedom fighters, Lee and his comrades left their homeland in 1960 to broadcast to the world the brutality of apartheid and to raise support for the African National Congress ("ANC") and its leaders, Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo. This film is an intimate tale about an African-American family, the anti-apartheid movement and the quest for reconciliation between a father and son."--IMDb.com
California Newsreel presents; Independent Television Service; produced by Chimpanzee Productions; a film by Thomas Allen Harris.
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
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What's race got to do with it? 2006. Berkeley, CA: California Newsreel. videorecording.
This program "chronicles the experiences of a new generation of college students, in this case over the course of 16 weeks of intergroup dialogue on the U.C. Berkeley campus. As they confront themselves and each other about race, they discover they often lack awareness of how different their experience of campus life is from their peers, to the detriment of an inclusive campus climate" -- Container.
California Newsreel presents; written, directed and produced by Jean Cheng.
What has race got to do with it?
Social disparities and student success
Title from disc menu screen.
Special features (46 min.): optional audio commentaries and excerpted interviews with Dave Stark & Jerlena Griffin-Destra (course goals & objectives, creating a space for dialogue, students' lives as the curriculum, course history: how conflict emerges, socioeconomic disparities, assessing the process, facing issues that arise).
Co-facilitators: Dave Stark, Jerlena Griffin-Destra; narrator: Belinda Sullivan.
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When we were kings: the untold story of the rumble in the jungle. 2005. Standard and widescreen formats. ed. Universal City, CA: Universal Studios
A documentary on Muhammad Ali at the time of the famous "Rumble in the Jungle" match with George Forman in Zaire.
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When rice was king. 1999. Columbia, S.C.: South Carolina ETV. videorecording.
Depicts the history of the rice culture in South Carolina.
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