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African American college students California Los Angeles Drama African American families California Los Angeles Drama African American families Drama Comedy films Los Angeles (Calif.) Drama Mississippi Robbery Slavery United States Drama United States Upper class families California Los Angeles DramaSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AFRSummary: 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
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COLSummary: Composer, conductor, genius, and mensch: Marvin Hamlisch earned four Grammys, four Emmys, three Oscars, three Golden Globes, a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize before his untimely death, making him one of only two PEGOT winners ever. Hit after hit--The way we were, Nobody does it better, and scores for The sting, Sophie's choice, and the Broadway juggernaut A chorus line, made him the go-to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MARSummary: Newly released from prison, an ex-con assembles his professional pals and plans a multi-million dollar robbery of an entire luxury apartment house. He is unaware that a hoard of lawmen are recording their activities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ANDSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: Forget about the straight and narrow. Clever con Charlie Croker (Michael Caine) intends to go straight to the bank. Fresh from the slammer, he begins work on a heist that will either set him up for life or send him up forever. Croker and his unruly lot of thieves take on the mob, the police and the gridlocked traffic of Turin to rob a heavily armed shipment of gold bullion in The Italian job.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ITASummary: Depicts the remarkable story of 93-year-old jazz legend Clark Terry. A living monument to the Golden Era of Jazz, having played in both the Duke Ellington and Count Basie bands. He broke racial barriers on American television and mentored the likes of Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, but his most unlikely friendship is with Justin Kauflin, a 23-year old blind piano prodigy. Justin, fighting a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KEESummary: Fantasia: Features a blend of animation set to classical music, and live action scenes of the orchestra. Pieces include: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, The Nutcracker Suite by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas, The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky, The Pastoral Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, Dance of the Hours by Amilcare Ponchielli,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY FANSummary: Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from Sparta's hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY INSummary: Will and Carlton enter the University of Los Angeles, home of the Peacocks--and college life is fly. Gorgeous coeds, their own place, fraternity parties, and even some education.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Fr 4Summary: An inner-city teenager from Philly is sent by his mother to live with his relatives in Bel-Air, and everybody is in for a surprise. This season, Will meets Lisa, falls in love, gets engaged, and elopes. Carlton finds his soul sister through online dating. In one of the series' most memorable episodes, Will grapples with a bullet with his name on it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010