Alfre Woodard
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
For more than thirty years, Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of Franklin Roosevelt, was America's most powerful woman. Drawing on interviews with her closest relatives, friends, and biographers, as well as rare home movie footage, the film reveals the hidden dimensions of one of the century's most influential women.
43) No small matter
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The first feature documentary to explore the most overlooked, underestimated, and powerful force for good in America today: early childhood education. Through poignant stories and surprising humor, the film lays out the overwhelming evidence for the importance of the first five years and reveals how the failure to act on that evidence has resulted in an everyday crisis for American families, and a slow-motion catastrophe for the country." --
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This documentary tells the story of the revolt aboard the slave ship La Amistad, in which Africans abducted from Sierra Leone in violation of international law took over the ship on which they were held, only to end up in the American court system. They took their case all the way to the Supreme Court, with various abolitionists and former president John Quincy Adams leading the way. Based on court documents and transcripts, letters written by the...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throughout many years. Their lives become mired in turmoil as their adult children's extramarital affairs, unethical business practices and a dark paternity secret threaten to derail family fortunes and unravel the lives of all involved. Alice's self-centered daughter, Andrea, is betraying her husband Chris...
46) The core
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A team of top scientific minds from around the world are assembled to determine what has been happening to Earth. Dr. Keyes makes the startling discovery that the Earth's electromagnetic forces have begun to collapse. If the planet is to be saved, the core of the Earth needs a jump start, and Keyes assembles a team to burrow to the center of the planet and bomb the insides back into action. However, as the crew digs deeper into the Earth, the more...
47) Puss in boots
Series
Publisher
Starmaker II, LCC
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A talking cat wins fame and fortune for his poor young master, but must conquer an ogre before everything can have a happy ending.
48) Extremities
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A young woman escapes a rapist, only to have him appear at her house. She fights back and turns the tables.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Streetwise but struggling, Clarence is trying to find a better life for himself and his family, make himself worthy to the woman he loves, and prove that he's not a nobody. Captivated by the power and glory of the rising Messiah and His apostles, he risks everything to carve his own path to a divine life, a journey through which he finds redemption and faith, power and knowledge"--
Publisher
Films Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The modern history of the Congo is a story of terrifying brutality. Beginning with the horrific campaigns of King Leopold II, and tracing the impact of the Belgian-led abuses on later ages, this shocking documentary is a heart-rending tale of a rich country destroyed by colonial greed.--Container.
52) Steel magnolias
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Television
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Steel Magnolias is an American comedy-drama television film directed by Kenny Leon that premiered at Lifetime Network on October 7, 2012. It is the remake of 1989 film of the same name. The new film stars an all-African American cast.
53) The piano lesson
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a family caught between their heritage and a dream for the future. The Charles family clashes over the fate of a magnificent, carved piano that carries their family's story from their days as slaves. Boy Willie wants to sell the piano to buy a farm--the same fields their family worked as slaves. But his sister, Berniece, refuses to part with it. For her, the piano is their very soul, a legacy of pride...
54) Blue chips
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
On the brink of a losing season, a collegiate basketball coach makes a trade for talent using under-the-table money. Now he has the best team that money can buy at the risk of betraying his conscience and the trust of his ex-wife.
56) So B. It
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Based on the New York Times Best-selling novel, a young prodigy named Heidi has a lucky streak that has a way of pointing her in the right direction. When a mysterious word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi's thirst for the truth leads her on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past." --
57) Reach for me
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Dying is hell, at least for Alvin, a terminally ill widower confined to his hospice bed with nothing to chew on but bitter memories. It's never too late to live, to laugh, to love.
Series
Holiday stories ; 1
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In the month of Kislev: A rich, arrogant merchant takes the family of a poor peddler to court and learns a lesson about the meaning of Hanukkah. The night before Chrismas: The story of Santa's visit on a snowy Christmas Eve. Seven candles for Kwanzaa: For each new day of Kwanzaa, a new candle is lit and children and adults share their thoughts, songs, stories from the past and dreams about the future.
60) Fatherhood
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An African American man brings up his daughter as a single father following the sudden death of his wife."--
