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1) 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.
Series
Publisher
Feature Films for Families
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Standard.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A slick inner-city youth is knocked unconscious and wakes up to find he has been transported back through time to 1822 Charleston, S.C., where he is taken captive as a slave.
4) Mandingo
Publisher
Legend Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A shocking look at plantation life in the Deep South. Mede is a slave whose master, Hammond Maxwell, intends on keeping him as a prizefighter. As Maxwell focuses his attention on his wenches and Mede's brutal training, his neglected wife turns her passions towards Mede himself."--Container.
5) Antebellum
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Successful author Veronica Henley is finishing a book tour before she returns home to her husband and daughter. But a shocking turn of events is about to upend Veronica's existence, plunging her into a horrifying reality that forces her to confront her past, present, and future-before it's too late.
Publisher
Sony Wonder
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
30th anniversary special ed.; full screen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
The story of the life an African American woman from Louisiana, from the time of her childhood as a slave in the pre-Civil War South to 1962, when she witnesses the birth of the civil rights movement at the age of one hundred and ten.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
4 DVDs : sd., b&w., col. ; 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...
8) Roots
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
30th anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
7 DVDs (9 hr., 33 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
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