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- An American Love Story - An extraordinary 10-hour PBS series about a black man and a white woman who have struggled for thirty years against racial stereotypes and societal prejudice to keep their family together.
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- Been Rich All My Life - Meet the Silver Belles -- former Apollo Theater showgirls who have danced and performed together for 70 years.
- Black Dawn - An animated account of Haiti's liberation told through the eyes of two African slaves.
- Black to the Promised Land - Inner-city teens travel to Israel and work on a kibbutz.
- Blood in the Face - Journalistic look at white supremacist movements in the U.S.
- Breaking the Ice, the Story of Mary Ann Shadd - The little known story of abolitionist, suffragette and integrationist Mary Ann Shadd, the first black female newspaper editor and the first black female attorney in North America.
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- Fang - Mixes documentary and fiction techniques to recount an African art object's 100 year journey - a whole century of Western attitudes towards African culture packed into 8 minutes!
- Finally Got The News - A film about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, which was, "in many respects the most significant expression of black radical thought and activism in the 1960s." - Manning Marable, Prof. of History, Columbia Univ.
- Fundi - Friend and advisor to Martin Luther King, FUNDI reveals the instrumental role that Ella Baker played in shaping the American civil rights movement.
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- A Gang for Good - Investigates the last self-governing "junior republic" in the country.
- Ghosts of Attica - The definitive account of America's most violent prison rebellion, its deadly suppression, the days of torture that ensued, and the almost 30 year legal case that followed.
- Guns & Mothers - The contentious debate over gun control, as seen through the eyes of two mothers on opposite sides of the issue.
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- Heart of the Matter - Examines the frightening growth of the AIDS epidemic among women.
- The Human Hambone - Celebrates the use of the human body as an instrument, and traces the roots of body music back to 18th-century American history, when slaves were forbidden to use drums, and turned to the body itself as a percussive instrument.
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- I Am Somebody - 1969 hospital workers struggle in Charleston, South Carolina.
- In Motion: Amiri Baraka - Biographical profile of the out-spoken African-American writer.
- The Intolerable Burden - One black family's commitment to a quality education, from the pre-1965 time of segregation, through desegregation, and through the recent period of resegregation. **Winner, John E. O'Connor Film Award, American Historical Association**
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- Larry Wright - A look at a very special young New York City street musician.
- The Last Angel of History - An engaging and searing examination of the hitherto unexplored relationships between Pan-African culture, science fiction, intergalactic travel, and rapidly progressing computer technology. (from the Jan., 1998 Catalog Supplement)
- Let the Church Say Amen - The effects of church and religion on both urban and rural African-American life.
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- No Loans Today - Fringe banking in redlined, post-riot South Central Los Angeles.
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- Passin' It On - A look at the struggles of Black Panther Dhoruba Bin Wahad, formerly Richard Moore.
- Public Enemy - Four former leaders of the Black Panther Party reflect on the impact of their radical 60s civil rights movement, and the promise and limitations of attempting revolutionary change.
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- Red Hook Justice - Profiles an innovative court in a Brooklyn neighborhood plagued by poverty and crime that is at the center of a legal revolution - the community justice movement.
- Rice and Peas - The experiences of a Trinidadian restaurant owner in Brooklyn.
- Robert, Mary, and Katrina - The astounding story of how one elderly couple faced and survived Hurricane Katrina. "[Their] story of struggle and survival from the wrath of Katrina grips the audience's emotions." - Educational Media Reviews Online
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- Sermons and Sacred Pictures - Profiles Reverend L.O. Taylor, a Baptist minister and inspired photographer/filmmaker who documented the fabric of black American life prior to the civil rights movement.
- Seven Songs for Malcolm X - An homage to the inspirational African-American civil rights leader.
- South - The heart of this journey is the brutal murder of James Byrd, Jr in Jasper, Texas. But this is not an anatomy of his murder, rather, it is an evocation of how this event fits in to a landscape and climate as much mental as physical.
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- Taking Back Detroit - In the '70s and early '80s Detroit was the site of an unusual development in U.S. urban politics, as voters elected two socialists to citywide office. The film examines these people against the backdrop of a city in extreme economic crisis.
- Travis - The inspirational story of a 10-year-old boy with full-blown AIDS.
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