Summary: An overcrowded maximum-security prison is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. A dramatic tale of human potential and transformation that closely follows and documents the stories of the prison inmates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Freedom Behind Bars Productions 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DHASummary: Director Patricio Guzman travels to the driest place on earth, Chile's Atacama Desert, where astronomers examine distant galaxies, archaeologists uncover traces of ancient civilizations, and women dig for the remains of disappeared relatives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Icarus Films 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NOSSummary: "It is 1932 when loyal, devoted Nurse Eunice Evers is invited to work with Dr. Brodus and Dr. Douglas on a federally funded program to treat syphilis patients in Alabama. Free treatment is offered to those who test positive for the disease, including Caleb Humphries and Willie Johnson. But when the government withdraws its support, money is offered for what will become known as 'The Tuskegee...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISSummary: Contains interviews with some of the protesters. In May of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. asked black people of Birmingham, Alabama to go to jail in the cause of racial equality. The adults were afraid to go to jail and so the school children marched and over 5000 of them were arrested. This lead to President Kennedy sponsoring the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the march on Washington. Portions of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Poverty Law Center 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MIGSummary: More love, laughs and Hart in a small Southern town! Season two opens with native New Yorker Dr. Zoe Hart continuing her medical practice and beginning to find roots in tiny BlueBell, Alabama. As if Zoe's sizzling connection with bad boy bartender Wade Kinsella and strong emotional ties to sexy lawyer George Tucker aren't enough to send her over the edge, an election scandal is brewing between...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Records and relates the lives of the women of Gee's Bend, Alabama, who for more than 150 years have made quilts reflecting their history and daily lives. Having worked in isolation for generations and continuing to inhabit the remote plantation land their parents once slaved, they have received unexpected attention from the artistic world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Alabama Public Television 2004
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 746.46 QUISummary: Celebrate African American history with this historic collection of stories. Collection includes: Rosa ; Henry's freedom box ; Lincoln and Douglass ; and, Ellington was not a street. Bonus interview with Nikki Giovanni. Bonus interview with Ellen Levine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV STOSummary: Based on Harper Lee's novel about a lawyer defending a black man accused of raping a white woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2008, the celebration is still racially segregated. Go into the parallel hearts of the city's two carnivals. With unprecedented access, the director traces the exotic world of secret mystic societies and centuries-old traditions and pageantry. From the crowns, the gowns, the surreal masks, to the enormous paper mache...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ORDSummary: 1950, rural Alabama. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint and away from the rival club across the way. He lays off his regular talent and hires the famous electric guitar player, Guitar Sam, for a one night only gig. When...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HONSummary: The passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 represented not the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement, but the beginning of a new, crucial chapter. Nowhere was this next battle better epitomized than in Lowndes County, Alabama, a rural, impoverished county with a vicious history of racist terrorism. In a county that was 80 percent Black but had zero Black voters, laws were just paper...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOWSummary: The journey of a lifetime for young Lily Strickland begins not out of her love for adventure but out of heartache. Longing for the father she lost to the ocean and having no way to say goodbye, Lily strikes out on her own. Leaving behind a safe, loving environment with her grandparents and loving mother, she faces not only her fears but the obstacles the wilderness presents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey Video 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WHESummary: Hoop Dreams goes to the mat in this intimate coming-of-age documentary about four members of a wrestling team at Huntsville's J.O. Johnson High School, a longstanding entry on Alabama's list of failing schools. Teammates Jailen, Jamario, Teague, and Jaquan each face challenges far beyond a shot at the state championship: splintered family lives, drug use, teenage pregnancy, mental health...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WRESummary: How did the Earth transform from a hot ball of molten rock and metal into the planet that we call home? How did our continents and oceans grow? Where did our great mountain ranges come from? The geological processes that have shaped our world have also influenced the way humans have populated the planet. From the Great Lakes to Iceland, the San Andreas Fault to Krakatoa, this series reveals the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arts and Entertainment Network 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HOWSummary: Dr. Zoe Hart's life was going according to plan: she was on her way to becoming a heart surgeon just like her father. But when she's told that she didn't have the bedside manner needed for an important fellowship, she's devastated. If she wants to get the fellowship next year, she must become a general practitioner. So, the New Yorker takes a chance on an offer from an admirer--in the deep south.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Little big league: An inspiring family comedy adventure about a boy's determination to put the fun back into baseball after inheriting the Minnesota Twins.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1931, two white women stepped from a boxcar in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on a train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the twentieth century. The trials of the nine young men would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions and give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SCOSummary: Two carefree pals (Macchio and Whitfield) traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, Vincent Gambini (Pesci) is the cousin of one of them and he is a lawyer. Vinny is a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try and has never been in court. When cousin Vinny arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend (Tomei) to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYSummary: "Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South - trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming - despite the odds"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HALSummary: "Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama has helped create some of the most important and resonant songs of all time. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, Rick Hall brought black and white together to create music for the generations. He is responsible for creating the 'Muscle Shoals sound' and the Swampers, the house band at FAME Studios that eventually...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MUSSummary: In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African American superstar, Tony Nathan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Woodlawn 2016Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOO RATED PGSummary: 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