Search Results: Returned 10 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 10
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-- Génération X-trême2002., General, Alliance Atlantis Call No: DVD Fic American HX Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Video Difference legacy collection (Dalhousie)Summary Note: "Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton, Rounders, Primal Fear) the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother, Danny (Edward Furlong, Pecker) from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a family, American History X also stars Faiuza Balk, Elliot Gould, Stacy Keach and Beverly D'Angelo."--Container.
![American history X [DVD] (1998). Directed by Tony Kaye](/Library/images/~imageCT82868.JPG "American history X [DVD] (1998). Directed by Tony Kaye")
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[2006], p2004., Adult, Lions Gate Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Crash Edition: 2-Disc Director's Cut ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America when a car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles.
![Crash [DVD] (2004). Directed by Paul Haggis.](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Crash [DVD] (2004). Directed by Paul Haggis.")
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2011., Anvil Press Call No: Fic Gre Edition: 2nd ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set in Surrey, BC, circa 1960, A Credit to Your Race is a story about innocent love awakening between a fifteen year old black porter's son and the white girl next door. The novel is a disturbing and convincing portrayal of how the full weight of racism and bigotry could come to bear on a youthful, interracial couple. A Credit to Your Race was published in 1973 in a press run of only a few hundred copies. We are pleased to be making this "lost" BC novel available to a new audience of readers.
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2018., Adult, 133, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: BLK DVD Fic Hate U Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Starr Carter navigates the perilous waters between her poor, black neighborhood and her prestigious, mainly white private school. This all changes when she finds herself in the middle of racial activism after her best friend is shot by police officers, and she's forced to make a decision. Allow the media to skewer her friend to protect the status quo, or stand up and tell the truth in memory of Khalil?
![The hate u give [DVD] (2018). Directed by George Tillman Jr.](/Library/images/~imageCT99848.JPG "The hate u give [DVD] (2018). Directed by George Tillman Jr.")
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1967., Adult, Criterion Collection Call No: BLK DVD Fic In H Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Criterion collectionSummary Note: A black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.
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-- Tihyeh ve-tihyeh2005., Adult, Menemsha Films Call No: FR DVD Fic Live Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 'The magnificent, epic story of an Ethiopian boy who is airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel in 1984 during Operation Moses. Shlomo is plagued by two big secrets. He is neither a Jew nor an orphan, just an African boy who survived and wants, somehow, to fulfill his Ethiopian mother's parting request that he 'go, live, and become.' Buoyed by a profound and unfaltering motherly love - both in his memory and in the arms of his adoptive mother - he ultimately finds an identity and a happiness all his own."--Container.
![Live and become [DVD] (2005). Directed by Yorick Kalbache.](/Library/images/~imageCT72881.JPG "Live and become [DVD] (2005). Directed by Yorick Kalbache.")
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2016., Adult, Entertainment One Films Canada Inc. Call No: DVD Fic Race Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Jesse Owens' quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history launches him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
![Race [DVD] (1990). Directed by Stephen Hopkins.](/Library/images/~imageCT82400.JPG "Race [DVD] (1990). Directed by Stephen Hopkins.")
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2023., Orion Releasing LLC Call No: BLK DVD Fic Till Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.
![Till [DVD] (2022). Directed by Chinonye Chukwu.](/Library/images/~imageCT102985.JPG "Till [DVD] (2022). Directed by Chinonye Chukwu.")
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2005., General, Universal Call No: DVD Fic To kill 2 Edition: Special ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Legacy series (Universal City, Calif.)Summary Note: Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece.
![To kill a mockingbird [DVD] (1962). Directed by Robert Mulligan.](/Library/images/~imageCT72755.JPG "To kill a mockingbird [DVD] (1962). Directed by Robert Mulligan.")
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[2017]., General, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: BLK DVD Fic UnitedK Edition: Widescreen edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set in the 1940s, Prince Seretse Khama, later the first president of Botswana, causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London.