Catalog Search Results
1) Antebellum
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
2) Broken trail
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A man and his estranged nephew become the guardians of five abused and abondoned Chinese girls. Their rivals intend to kidnap the girls while the two are delivering a herd of horses
3) Manderlay
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A young girl traveling across 1930's America with her father discovers a plantation that doesn't know that slavery has been abolished. Can this well-meaning girl and her lawyer father change the minds and hearts of the plantation owners?
4) NightJohn
Publisher
Platinum Disc
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
When a new slave named NightJohn is brought to the plantation, he opens a whole new world for Sarny because he has forbidden talents. He can read and also he can teach. As she learns to read she learns the power of words and the unconquerable strength of the human spirit
5) Roots
Publisher
A & E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 389 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Publisher
s.n.]
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
George L. Aiken's 1852 dramatization of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's cabin. Issued for the 2011 Harriet Beecher Stowe bicentennial, this updated DVD puts the novel and play of Uncle Tom's Cabin into its proper literary, theatrical and societal contexts. Teachers, students, American history buffs and church study groups alike will benefit from this comprehensive program, containing two different staged versions of the play and a 138 page...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 170 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The following drama contain scenes which may not be suitable for all audiences. Viewer discretion is advised."--Container.
"Set during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica ... [this program] follows the indomitable young slave, July ... who works on a sugarcane plantation owned by her detestable mistress, Caroline Mortimer ... . Their lives change with the arrival of the charming new overseer, Robert Goodwin ... who sets out to improve...
8) Beloved
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (171 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
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
9) Freedom
Publisher
ARC Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two men separated by 100 years are united in their search for freedom. In 1856 a slave, Samuel Woodward and his family, escape from the Monroe Plantation near Richmond, Virginia. A secret network of ordinary people known as the Underground Railroad guides the family on their journey north to Canada.
11) Buoyancy
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Central Khmer
Description
This story of a Cambodian teenager sold into forced labor on a Thai fishing boat is a passionate testimony against social injustice and a moving coming-of-age tale about a boy whose humanity is put to the test.
12) 12 years a slave
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 134 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Solomon Northup. It is 1841, and Northup, an accomplished, free citizen of New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Stripped of his identity and deprived of all dignity, Northup is ultimately purchased by ruthless plantation owner Edwin Epps and must find the strength within to survive. Filled with powerful performances by an astonishing cast including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad...
13) Santa Fe Trail
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
In this historical drama, Jeb Stuart, the famed Southern cavalryman arrives at West Point, where he befriends George Armstrong Custer. Both compete for the attention of "Kit Carson" Halliday. As a punishment for fighting with fellow classmates, both men are sent to an outpost in Kansas where they must battle the abolitionist John Brown. This experience causes them to examine their personal feelings about slavery
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This classic action-adventure film that changed the face of sci-fi forever, an astronaut crash-lands on a strange planet ruled by intelligent apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport.
Language
English
Description
Miss Jane Pittman is celebrating her 110th birthday. As the civil rights movement heats up, Miss Jane, a former slave, recounts her memories of the black experience from picking potatoes on a southern plantation to fetching water for soldiers in the Civil War to her views on the current and turbulent equal rights movement
16) Roots
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Alex Haley's Roots, in which he traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors was captured and sold into slavery. Follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boys' abduction to America and continues throughout the generations that follow.
Publisher
Entertainment One Film USA ; [Brisbane, Australia]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (506 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 volume (unpaged : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
A universal story of loss, courage and triumph, this recounts the extraordinary journey of Aminata Diallo, an indomitable African woman who survives in a world in which everything seems to be against her. Kidnapped by slave traders in West Africa then sold into slavery in South Carolina, Aminata navigates her way through the American Revolution in New York, the isolated refuge of Nova Scotia, and the treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, before finally...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-Ray videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1831, when Virginia slave Nat Turner learns of slavery conditions in other parts of the state, he leads an uprising against slave owners in the area.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 21 hr., 48 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blue steel: It's up to John Carruthers to save the little town of Yucca City from the evil extremes of the 'Polka Dot Bandit," and win the heart of the beautiful Betty Mason.
Santa Fe Trail: Jeb Stuart, the famed Southern calvaryman arrives at West Point, where he befriends George Armstrong Custer. Both compete for the attention of "Kit Carson" Halliday. As a punishment for fighting with fellow classmates, both men are sent to an outpost in Kansas...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request