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Sold Down the River (1992 Video)

Producer

Mark Hayhurst

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Fifty years after the American Civil War, blacks in the southern states still could not vote or sit on juries, and lynch mobs enforced white rule. Asks why the emancipation from slavery led to another, even...

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Portraits in Black (1986)

Subject

Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 60 minutes), $39.95 ($79.95 institutional use)

A collection of three award-winning films. This compilation is designed to increase awareness of how black writers, artists and freedom fighters contributed to the American cultural tradition. PAUL LAURENCE...

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"Is This the Noble Moor?" (2016 Audio)

aka: American Moor

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Othello is the story of a tragic murder and suicide involving a dark-skinned general and his aristocratic, white-skinned bride. Who should direct it? Who is...

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Our Mockingbird (2016)

Director

Sandy Jaffe

Subject

Literature; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 65 minutes), $295.00

OUR MOCKINGBIRD is a documentary that uses Harper Lee’s 1960 novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ as a lens to view race, class, gender and justice, then and now. Woven through the film is the story of two...

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Devil’s Music, The: Series 2 (2011)

Subject

Music

A series of four 25-minute programmes in which Alexis Korner investigates the roots of American Blues music.

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (1986)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 108 minutes), €18.99

DIVINING was Judith Jamison’s first major work as a choreographer for Alvin Ailey Dance Company. The dance evokes a strong feeling for African tribal ritual and is set to hauntingly rhythmic drum music....

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Breaking the Ice, The Story of Mary Ann Shadd (2000)

Director

Sylvia Sweeney

Producer

Peter Raymont; Lindalee Tracey; Maria Pimentel

Subject

Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 62 minutes), $248.00

BREAKING THE ICE, THE STORY OF MARY ANN SHADD sheds new light on the remarkable, little known story of the abolitionist, suffragette and integrationist Mary Ann Shadd. Living in Windsor, Ontario, she fought...

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Hip-Hop Dance: History and Concept (2010)

Director

Moncell Durden

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 43 minutes), £75.00 (University rate)

This documentary explores the history and scope of Hip-Hop dance. Despite its popularity, Hip Hop continues to struggle to find its definition in terms of historical lineage, concept, origins, aesthetics,...

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In the Land of the Free (2010)

Director

Vadim Jean

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 84 minutes), £7.20

This documentary examines the story of Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert King. They are known as the Angola 3 and have spent almost a century between them in solitary confinement in Angola, the...

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Eyes on the Prize (1988 Video)

Producer

Orlando Bagwell

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 6 x 60 min., 1995 sale: £22.99 each part, £122.00 set (inc. VAT +p&p)

The story of the US civil rights movement from 1954 to 1965, when the struggle for social justice became a mass movement that transformed American society. The films use news footage and interviews to...

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