Forest Whitaker
1) Southpaw
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Billy 'The Great' Hope, reigning Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, seemingly has it all: an impressive career, a beautiful and loving wife, an adorable daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. When tragedy strikes and his lifelong manager and friend leaves him behind, Hope hits rock bottom and turns to an unlikely savior at a run-down local gym: Tick Willis, a retired fighter and trainer to the city's toughest amateur boxers.
"Southpaw sticks...
3) Arrival
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team ,including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
4) The paperboy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A paperboy and his dog enjoy the quiet of the early morning as they go about their rounds.
5) Taken 3
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ex-covert operative Bryan Mills, whose long awaited reconciliation with his ex-wife is tragically cut short when she is brutally murdered, must use his 'particular set of skills' to track down the real killers, exact his unique brand of justice, and protect the only thing that matters to him now: his daughter.
6) Respect
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Offers a look into the life of Aretha Franklin: from her childhood traumatized by the loss of her mother through her difficult rise to international fame in the sixties, when she was also struggling with an abusive marriage and alcohol problems.
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (10 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This is the story of a young boy who grew up to become president of South Africa. His lifelong quest was to establish equality for people of all colors.
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (117 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
William Garnett (Forest Whitaker) is an ex-con starting life over as a recently converted Muslim. With the help of his determined parole officer (Brenda Blethyn), he gets a job, meets an interesting woman, and keeps his head down. But the town sheriff, Bill Agati (Harvey Keitel), won't leave him alone since Garnett was responsible for killing his deputy. As Agati puts pressure on him, and his old partners in crime hassle him, Garnett slowly starts...
9) Zulu
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by Caryl Ferey. Set against the backdrop of post-apartheid South Africa, two South African police officers on opposing sides of the apartheid divide work together to fight crime.
10) Bank Robber
Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
After robbing a bank, Billy (Patrick Dempsey) hides out from the police in a seedy hotel where he is forced to bribe various tenants for protection and their silence. Soon the tenants begin to up the price for their trouble.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 24 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
Once Jennie had everything. She had two bowls to eat from, two pillows, and for cold weather, a red wool sweater. She even had a master who loved her. But Jennie didn't care. In the middle of the night she packed everything she had in a black leather bag with gold buckles and looked out of her favorite window for the last time... Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life follows Jennie's surreal, suspenseful and unexpectedly moving journey...
12) Arrival
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team ,including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When acclaimed Washington Post writer Wil Haygood had an early hunch that Obama would win the 2008 election, he thought he'd highlight the singular moment by exploring the life of someone who had come of age when segregation was so widespread, so embedded in the culture as to make the very thought of a black president inconceivable. He struck gold when he tracked down Eugene Allen, a butler who had served no fewer than eight presidents, from Harry...
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (159 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer – and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond. But it isn’t long before their friendship is put on trial by their respective bear-fearing and mice-eating...
15) Duke Ellington
Author
Language
English
Description
Duke Ellington was hailed as the "King of the Keys." This is a most fitting tribute to a great man who proudly celebrated the history of African-Americans from slavery to civil rights struggles.
16) Hope floats
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Full screen and widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Birdee Pruitt has a life most people would envy. But when her cheating husband reveals his infidelity to her on a national TV talk show, her perfect life comes crashing down. Devastated, Birdee and her young daughter head home to the small town she left behind. As mother and daughter struggle to adjust to their new lives, Birdee slowly gains the strength to open her heart and find hope again.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Max has an active imagination, who will throw a fit if others don't go along with what he wants. Following an incident with his sister Claire and her friends, Max throws a tantrum when his mother pays more attention to her boyfriend than to him - runs away from home. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world, an ocean away, is inhabited by large wild beasts, including...
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
c2008.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas, a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Imported by the Army for an early morning radio show in Vietnam, disc jockey Adrian Cronauer blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home. The G.I.'s love him, but the brass is up in arms.
20) Roots
Language
English
Formats
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. Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel which has resonated with millions of Americans, it reveals powerful, universal truths about the resilience of the human spirit.