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  1. O.J.: Made in America (2017)

    Director
    Ezra Edelman
    Subject
    American Studies; Law; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 467 minutes), £12.99

    This mammoth documentary documents the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, drawing upon more than seventy interviews to tell the story of the life of the American footballer and celebrity whose trial for the...

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  2. Leonard Bernstein and Westside Story (2017 Audio)

    aka: Juliet Appears Above, At a Window

    Subject
    Shakespeare; Social sciences

    As a two-year global celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s work commences, Neva Grant interviews two experts on the great composer to explore his legacy and the creation of the adaptation of Romeo and Juliet,...

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  3. Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2016)

    Director
    Stanley Nelson
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 113 minutes), £5.99

    THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION is the first feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political...

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  4. 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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  5. Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (2015)

    Director
    Pratibha Parmar
    Subject
    History; Literature; Social Studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 84 minutes), $395

    Feature film documentary. Alice Walker made history as the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple. Her early life unfolded in the midst of...

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  6. H4 (2014 Film)

    Director
    Paul Quinn
    Producer
    Art Olmos; Mark Schwartz; Abina Dodeva; Danny Green; Gil Bindelglas; Heather Ankeny
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    No archive copy or distributor known

    Independent feature which translates the Henry IV plays to contemporary Los Angeles to explore political struggles in the black community. Harry Lennix is King Henry.

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  7. African Americans, The: Many Rivers to Cross (2013)

    Subject
    History; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 360 minutes), $29.99

    This film, presented by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and...

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  8. Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years, 1984 - 1992 (2012)

    Director
    Dagmar Schultz
    Subject
    Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 15 minutes), 15 Euros (personal use); 300 Euros (Universities and colleges)

    Documentary about black American writer and activist Audre Lorde’s relation to the German Black Diaspora as well as her literary and political influence.

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  9. 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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  10. Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)

    Director
    Göran Hugo Ollson
    Subject
    Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 100 minutes), $24.98

    The BLACK POWER MIXTAPE examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the USA from 1967 to 1975, using recently discovered 16mm footage filmed by Swedish journalists and found lying in the cellar of...

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