Summary: Discusses ways in which the media openly degrades women. Features commentary from many influential women in media and politics.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2012

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MIS

Winfrey, Oprah

Summary: Tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used in the 1950s to create the first immortal human cell line resulting in medical breakthroughs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2017

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD IMM NOT RATED

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE IMM

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Immortal 2017

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IMM

Summary: A compelling combination of storytelling and science, this series uses genealogy, oral histories, family stories and DNA to trace roots of several accomplished African Americans down through American history and back to Africa.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AFR

Summary: After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe & Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1999

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEL

Summary: A small but brave donkey and his animal friends become the unsung heroes of the first Christmas.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY STA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD St

Summary: Comprising elements of travelogue, history lesson, biography, critical analysis, psychological study, and fan testimonial, this documentary explores the work and influence of German writer W.G. Sebald, via a long walk through coastal East Anglia, retracing the steps he took in his most famous book, The rings Of Saturn. Includes interviews with writers, artists, and filmmakers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild/Spark 2012

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PAT

Summary: Inspired by a true story about Cecil Gaines, a devoted husband, father, and White House butler who served eight Presidential administrations during the turbulent politics and civil rights battles of twentieth century America.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BUT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BUT RATED PG-13

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BUT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BUT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Butler 2013

Summary: Examines the life and legacy of African American poet, memoirist, and civil rights worker Maya Angelou, from her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana to the recitation of her inaugural poem for President Bill Clinton. Includes Angelou's own words woven together with archival photographs and videos as well as interviews with Angelou's friends and family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAY

Summary: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SEL

Summary: Profiles the life and career of Tina Turner, featuring her personal reflections, archival interviews, and contributions from others.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 921 Tina

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TIN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TIN

Summary: In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2010

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRE

Summary: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SEL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Selma 2015

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEL RATED PG-13

Summary: An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TON

Summary: Although he has been missing for several years and the entire town thinks her father has abandoned her family, Meg steadfastly believes the best and protects her younger brother, Charles Wallace, from the brunt of the rumors and taunting. It is he, however, who convinces her to join him, the school sports star Calvin, and three unusual women on an interplanetary voyage to rescue their father...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2018

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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WRI

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WRI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WRI

Summary: Having just graduated from college, Barry B. Benson finds himself disillusioned with the prospect of having only one career choice - honey. As he ventures outside of the hive for the first time, he breaks one of the cardinal rules of the bee world and talks to a human, a New York City florist named Vanessa. He is shocked to discover that the humans have been stealing and eating the bee's honey...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEE

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BEE

Summary: The heart-wrenching story of a young black girl in the early 20th century who's forced into a brutal marriage and separated from her sister.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Color

Summary: A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD COL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COL

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

Summary: Hassan is a culinary ingenue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, his family settles in a quaint village in the south of France. They plan to open an Indian restaurant, that is, until Madame Mallory, the owner of a classical French restaurant, gets wind of it. Her icy protests against the new Indian restaurant so near her own escalate to all out...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HUN

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Hundred 2014

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUN RATED PG

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HUN

Summary: Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Earth 2010

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD 577 Life 2010

Summary: Gunner's mother is very ill, but he believes a local legend about "the Water Man" who knows how to live forever, so he and a mysterious girl named Jo set off into the Wild Horse forest in order to hunt down the legend. The deeper the go into the woods, it becomes more strange and more dangerous, but Gunner's father is coming after them and will stop at nothing to rescue his son.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE WAT

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WAT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAT

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAT

Summary: Fern is a young farm girl who rescues a runt pig, Wilbur. Wilbur is saved from certain death and Fern visits him every day at her Uncle Homer's farm. But it's Wilbur's friendship with Charlotte the spider that ultimately saves him from the "smoke house." Charlotte's talent for weaving praiseworthy words about Wilbur into her web turns the Zuckerman farm into a tourist attraction.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD C

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CHA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHA RATED G

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHA

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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD Charlotte's

Summary: Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2008

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2008

Summary: New Orleans. Arrogant, carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana cross paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician. Tiana follows suit when she decides to kiss the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, Naveen and Tiana must race to break the spell and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PRI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRI RATED G