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Last updated October 2001
The films and videorecordings listed below are owned by York University Libraries and available for academic use by the York University community.
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Please note the following abbreviations:
MP : 16mm film
VC : VHS videotape
VC 3/4 : 3/4" videotape
4 LITTLE GIRLS 103 min. 1998 VC #4821 Spike Lee On Sunday morning, September 15, 1963 in Birmingham Alabama, a bomb planted by members of the Ku Klux Klan ripped through Sixteenth Street Baptist Church killing four young girls as they prepared for Sunday School. A. PHILIP RANDOLPH 87 min. 1996 VC #4156 Dante J. James/California Newsreel Biography of the labour leader, journalist and civil rights activist who won the first national labour agreement for a black union, the Sleeping Car Porters. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTISTS SERIES 4 X 28 min. 1991-95 Linda Freeman/David Irving BETYE AND ALISON SAAR: CONJURE WOMEN OF THE ARTS VC #4975 Mother and daughter artists demonstrate collaborative art, and the use of found objects, and reflect on their relationship and motivation. FAITH RINGGOLD: THE LAST STORY QUILT VC #4974 Profiles the life and work of the noted Afro-American woman artist who specializes in painting on quilts and other cloth surfaces. JACOB LAWRENCE: THE GLORY OF EXPRESSION VC #4976 Lawrence, whose characteristic mediums are gouache and tempera, talks about his work and life. ROMARE BEARDEN: VISUAL JAZZ VC #4973 Explores Bearden's paintings and collages which captured the essence of the African-American experience, especially in his rendition of jazz. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AFRICANS IN AMERICA: AMERICA'S JOURNEY THROUGH SLAVERY SERIES 4 X 90 min. WGBH-TV 1. THE TERRIBLE TRANSFORMATION VC #5186 In the 17th century, English planters bring enslaved Africans to America to raise crops, as the supply of white bond servants declines. Laws define legal status by race, ensuring that Africans and their descendants will be slaves. Resistance leads to rebellions in South Carolina and New York. 2. Revolution VC #5187 As the desire for freedom grows in the British American colonies, enslaved Africans must decide which side of the conflict holds the best promise of freedom for them. 3. BROTHERLY LOVE VC #5188 A new generation of Afro-American leaders emerges in northern cities as black churches provide a forum for political organization. The Haitian Revolution inspires slave rebellions in the South, and the end of the international slave trade strengthens the abolitionist movement. 4. JUDGEMENT DAY VC #5189 As America expands westward, slavery becomes the most divisive issue. The Compromise of 1850 creates new threats to black freedom and the Dred Scott decision obliterates black rights. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ALEX HALEY 50 min. 1992 VC #3306 Matteo Bellinelli / Swiss TV Alex Haley recounts his transformation from a college drop-out into one of America's most powerful non-fiction writers. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!: THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY AND BEYOND 115 min. 1996 VC #5365 Lee Lew-Lee Government documents, rare news clips, interviews with ex-activists and FBI/CIA agents define the bloody conflict between political dissent and repressive government authority in the U.S. during the period of the 60s and the 70s. ANGELOU ON BURNS 48 min. 1996 VC #5138 Elly M. Taylor Maya Angelou makes a pilgrimage to Scotland in search of Robert Burns, a poet she developed an affinity for from the time she first learned to read. ALBERTA HUNTER: MY CASTLE'S ROCKIN' 60 min. 1988 VC #1850 Stuart Goldman Prod. Looks at the career of the blues singer and jazz vocalist who came out of retirement in 1977. ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER 120 min. 1990 VC #0580 Home Vision Performances of three works choreographed by Ailey and a ballet tribute choreographed by Ulysses Dove. Introduction by Judith Jamison, company artistic director. AMAZING GRACE 90 min. 1990 VC #2299 Public Affairs TV Traces the history of the song written by an 18th century slave ship captain, John Newton, who became an abolitionist. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY, VOLUME 1 1999 100 min. VC #5580 Zohe Film 1. Welcome to America: Karen and Bill reflect on the early difficult years of their interracial relationship. 2. At piece of the puzzle is missing: At Colgate University, their eldest daughter Cicily struggles with relationships with fellow students--black and white. AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY, VOLUME 2 1999 100 min. VC #5581 Zohe Film 3. I've fallen and I can't get up: In Nigeria, Cicily's classmates from Colgate divide along racial lines, leaving her in the middle and she falls in love with a Nigerian. 4. It's another new year and I ain't gone: Returning to New York from Africa, Cicily senses that her parents don't fully comprehend her feelings. AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY, VOLUME 3 1999 100 min. VC #5582 Zohe Film 5. Chaney & the boy: Chaney, at the young age of 12, has found her first boyfriend and wants to date--an issue over which Bill and Karen are at odds. 6. You and me against the world: Returning to Colgate University, Cicily is again ostracized by the black community on campus. Karen goes to visit her mother in Florida, where she doesn't feel comfortable bringing Bill and the kids. AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY, VOLUME 4 1999 100 min. VC #5583 Zohe Film 7. True love: Karen, facing immediate surgery, manages to attend Cicily's college graduation. Bill nurses Karen back to health. 8. Marion truth: Bill returns to his hometown Marion, Ohio where his two children from a previous marriage live. One is facing imprisonment. AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY, VOLUME 5 1999 100 min. VC #5584 Zohe Film 9. It's my job: Cicily tries to find a "meaningful" job, while her father's career troubles mount and he drinks more heavily. 10. We were never Ozzie & Harriet: Twenty-five years after meeting, Bill and Karen attend her high school reunion, to face the people who ostracized her long ago. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ARCHIE SHEPP: I AM JAZZ...IT'S MY LIFE 52 min. 1990 VC #3859 Rhapsody Films Portrait of Archie Shepp, multi-instrumentalist, composer, poet, playwright and educator. ARE WE DIFFERENT? YOUNG AFRICAN AMERICANS TALK ABOUT CULTURAL DIFFERENCE AND RACE IN AMERICA 30 min. 1992 VC #2796 John Anthos African-American students around the country articulate issues of race, racisim, and race relations. ARRESTING PREJUDICE 32 min. 1992 VC #2938 Coronet An examination of prejudicial behaviors among law enforcement officials and ways to promote fairness. ART BLAKEY 58 min. 1982 VC #1538 Adler Enterprises Ltd. With Wynton Marsalis A celebration of Art Blakey's past and present commitment to jazz. AT THE RIVER I STAND 56 min. 1994 VC #3309 David Appleby/Allison Graham/Steven John Ross Documentary of two 1968 events in the civil rights movement--the sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. BASKETS OF GOLD: PRESERVING AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN TRADITION 23 min. 1998 VC #5258 Trident Productions Passed down from generation to generation, slaves from Western Africa first introduced the grass basket to rice plantations along the Southeast coast more than 300 years ago. BASQUIAT 106 min. 1996 VC Feature Julian Schnabel Home use-no classroom rights In 1981, an unknown graffiti writer takes the New York art world by storm. Based on the story by Lech Majewski. BELOVED 172 min. 1998 VC Feature Jonathan Demme Home use - no classroom rights Based on the novel by Toni Morrison. After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl by the name of joins them and strange things start to happen. BERKELEY IN THE SIXTIES 117 min. 1990 VC #2161 Mark Kitchell Documents the origins and growth of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California's Berkeley campus in the early 1960's. BIAS AWARENESS IN A MULTICULTURAL WORLD 50 min. 1991 VC #2199-2200 College Survival Designed to help students deal constructively with problems of bias, prejudice and racism. BIG FELLA 73 min. 1937 VC Feature J. Elder Wills Home use - no classroom rights A Marseilles dockworker and a local cafe singer become surrogate parents to a boy running away from his wealthy family. With Paul Robeson. BILL COSBY ON PREJUDICE 25 min. 1972 MP #6227 Pyramid Films In a satiric diatribe in which a super bigot expresses a hatred against all minority groups, actor Bill Cosby exposes the prejudices which are experienced by all. BIRD NOW 92 min. 1987 VC #2367 Marc Huraux Emphasizes the legendary status of alto saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker and his contributions to the development of bebop. THE BIRTH OF A NATION 200 min. 1991 Laserdisc FEATURE D.W. Griffith Fictional account of life in the South during and after the Civil War. BIX: AN INTERPRETATION OF A LEGEND 100 min. 1990 VC Feature Pupi Avati Recreates the life of jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke who, along with Louis Armstrong, created the role of the inventive solo artist in jazz. BLACK CAESAR 94 min. 1973 VC Feature Larry Cohen Home use-no classroom rights The Mafia challenges a fellow's efforts to gain control of the rackets in city ghettos around the country. BLACK HISTORY: LOST, STOLEN, OR STRAYED 54 min. 1968 MP #3068-69 CBS News Shows African-American contributions to the development and wealth of the United States. BLACK INDIANS: AN AMERICAN STORY 60 min. 2000 VC #5901 Rich-Heape Films Using family memories and historical highlights, explores what brought Native Americans and African Americans together, what drove them apart, and the challenges they face today. BLACK IS BLACK AIN'T 88 min. 1995 VC #3605 Marlon Riggs Argues that the definitions of blackness that African Americans impose on each other contains and reduces the black experience. BLACK MAMA, WHITE MAMA 86 min. 1972 VC Feature Eddie Romero Home use - no classroom rights Two women, a prostitute and a guerrilla revolutionary, escape from prison while shackled together. THE BLACK PRESS: SOLDIERS WITHOUT SWORDS 86 min. 1998 VC #5043 California Newsreel A history of African-American newspapers and journalism from the mid-19th century through the 20th century. With commentary by historians, journalists, and photojournalists, tells of the struggles against censorship, discrimination and for freedom of the press. BLACK THEATRE: THE MAKING OF A MOVEMENT 114 min 1978 VC #2930 California Newsreel Recaptures the birth of a new theatre from the Civil Rights activism of the 1950's, '60s, and '70s. BLACKS AND JEWS 85 min. 1997 VC #4585 Snitow-Kaufman Prod. Early in the 20th century Black and Jewish Americans joined forces against bigotry but in the late 1960's the coalition fell apart. Examines the history of this collaboration, recent racial conflicts and attempts at understanding and reconciliation. BLOOD IN THE FACE 75 min. 1991 VC #2995 Right Thinking Prod. Documents behind-the-scenes activities and individual philosophies and views of members of the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan movement, Nazi skinheads and Neo-nazis. BLOOD OF JESUS 68 min. 1941 VC Feature Spencer Williams, Jr. Small rural town is in an uproar when a sinful husband accidentally shoots his newly baptized wife. BLUE MELODIES 83 min. 1919-35 VC #4572 Kino International Symphony in black: a rhapsody of negro life / Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday (1935) - Those blues / Vincent Lopez (1932) - Ol' king cotton / George Dewey Washington (1930) - A bundle of blues / Duke Ellington, Ivie Anderson (1933) - Jitterbug party / Cab Calloway (1935) - Her future / Ethel Merman (1930) - St. Louis blues / Bessie Smith (1929) - Blue of the night / Bing Crosby (1933) BLUES ACCORDIN' TO LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS 30 min. 1969 MP #3774 Les Blank Portrays the black culture of Texas through the blues music of Lightnin'Hopkins. BODY AND SOUL 80 min. 1924 MP #4535-36 and VC Feature Oscar Micheaux / Museum of Modern Art A melodrama about gamblers who exploit the religiosity of poor blacks. With Paul Robeson. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON: THE LIFE AND THE LEGACY 30 min. 1982 VC #2631 William Greaves A candid look at the controversial, undisputed leader of black America at the turn of the century. BROKEN EARTH 17 min. 1987 VC Feature Roman Freulich A widowed farmer prays for his sick, young son's health. THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS 47 min. 1997 VC #5033 Bill Armstrong Prod. History of the two black cavalry regiments that kept peace on the frontier from 1867 to 1891. Also shown is the dedication ceremony at Fort Leavenworth of a monument to them by sculptor Eddie Dixon, with speeches by Gen. Colin Powell and other black officers of the U.S. Armed Forces. BUKKA WHITE AND SON HOUSE 60 min. 1991 VC #3552 Donald Ciro Performances by Bukka White and Son House, vocals and guitar. CAMPUS CULTURE WARS: FIVE STORIES ABOUT PC 86 min. 1993 VC #2292 South Carolina ETV Examines five controversial incidents at American universities involving conflicts of values and "political correctness". CHARLES MINGUS: TRIUMPH OF THE UNDERDOG 78 min. 1997 VC #4881 Shanachie Entertainment Nine years in the making and exhaustively researched, the film uses abundant clips of Mingus in performance in the 1960s and 1970s to illustrate the many faces and tortured heart of a jazz musical genius. CHECK AND DOUBLE CHECK 78 min. 1930 VC Feature Melville Brown Home use-no classroom rights Amos 'n' Andy play Uncle Tom in the streets of New York and in a haunted house in their only feature film. CISSY HOUSTON: SWEET INSPIRATION 58 min. 1988 VC #4351 Cinema Guild Profiles the singer whose career has successfully combined gospel and pop music. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CIVIL WAR SERIES Ken Burns / PBS Video 1. THE CAUSE, 1861 99 min. 1990 VC #2040 Includes descriptions of the Harper's Ferry raid by John Brown, Abraham Lincoln's 1860 election, the firing of Fort Sumter, the rush to arms and the Union defeat at Manassas. 2. A VERY BLOODY AFFAIR, 1862 69 min. 1989 VC #2041 Shows the political infighting of Lincoln's administration. Follows Union General George McClellan's ill-fated campaign on the Virginia Peninsula. Shows the battle of ironclad ships, camp life, the crumbling of slavery and the bloody climax of Ulysses S. Grant's exploits at the Battle of Shiloh. 3. FOREVER FREE, 1862 76 min. 1989 VC #2042 Lincoln is convinced that the abolition of slavery is crucial to the Union's future, but must wait for a Union victory to issue his proclamation. Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee lead the Confederate forces successfully for much of 1862. The most bloody day of war takes place at Antietam Creek. 4. SIMPLY MURDER, 1863 62 min. 1989 VC #2043 The Union meets disaster at Fredericksburg, Lee wins a victory at Chancellorsville but loses Stonewall Jackson, and Grant is stopped at Vicksburg. There is fierce Northern opposition to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and increasing desperation at the Confederate homefront. 5. THE UNIVERSE OF BATTLE, 1863 95 min. 1989 VC #2044 Presents the Battle of Gettysburg, chronicles the fall of Vicksburg, the New York draft riots, the first use of black troops and the Western battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga. 6. VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, 1864 70 min. 1989 VC #2045 Compares the Civil War generals Grant and Lee and the series of battles they led against each other's forces from the Wilderness to Petersburg in Virginia. Describes the large number of casualties, the ghastly hospitals and Lincoln's decreasing chances for re-election. 7. MOST HALLOWED GROUND, 1864 72 min. 1989 VC #2046 With the Civil War forces locked in combat with heavy casualties, opinion in the North has turned against Lincoln and the War. His chances in 1864 for re-election are suddenly improved with last-minute Union victories at Mobile Bay, Atlanta and the Shenandoah Valley. Lee's mansion is turned into a Union military hospital and the estate becomes Arlington National Cemetery. 8. WAR IS HELL, 1865 69 min. 1989 VC #2047 Presents Sherman's march to Georgia and the Carolinas, the fall of Petersburg and Richmond to Grant's army, and the flight and surrender of Lee's tattered Northern Virginia Army at Appomatox. 9. THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE, 1865 68 min. 1989 VC #2048 Presents events following Lee's surrender, including the assassination of Lincoln, and considers the national consequences of the Civil War on the United States. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CLARENCE THOMAS AND ANITA HILL: PUBLIC HEARING, PRIVATE PAIN 58 min. 1992 VC #2797 PBS Video Discusses the Thomas confirmation hearings, the charges of sexual harrassment by Anita Hill, and the reactions from Afro-Americans. A CLASS DIVIDED 58 min. 1985 VC #0392 PBS Video A reunion of teacher Jane Elliott and her third-grade class of 1970 shows how her experimental curriculum on the evils of discrimination, documented in Eye of the Storm, had a lasting effect. CLIFTON CHENIER, THE KING OF ZYDECO 55 min. 1987 VC #1839 Arhoolie Prod. Musical performances and interviews with Clifton Chenier and his Red Hot Louisiana Band. CLOCKERS 129 min. 1995 VC Feature Spike Lee Two brothers grow up together in the same Brooklyn housing projects, but they are as opposite as good and evil. COFFY 91 min. 1973 VC Feature Jack Hill Home use-no classroom rights Coffy takes vengenance on the powerful drug ring that destroyed her younger sister's life. COLOR ADJUSTMENT: BLACKS IN PRIME TIME 87 min. 1992 VC #2621 and #3304 Marlon Riggs Traces over forty years of turbulent American race relations through the lens of prime time entertainment. COLOR OF FEAR 90 min. 1994 VC #4611 Stir-Fry Prod. Eight North American men of Asian, European, Latino, and African descent, talk together about how racism affects them. THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN 60 min. 1991 VC #2509 PBS Video Records training sessions at the U.S. Army's Defence Equal Opportunity Management Institute designed to reduce racial tension among enlisted personnel. COLORS STRAIGHT UP 93 min. 1997 VC #4943 Michele Ohayon Documents the struggle of teenagers from south central Los Angeles to stay off the violent streets. They recover their talents and dignity through "Colors United," a performing arts group for inner city kids. Follows six teenagers as the group evolves "Watts Side Story", based on "Romeo and Juliet" and "West Side Story." THE COLTRANE LEGACY 61 min. 1985 VC #1838 Burrill Crohn John Coltrane is shown and described in this compilation of rare television footage. Includes interviews with fellow musicians. THE COOL WORLD 105 min. 1963 VC Feature Shirley Clarke A study of Harlem youth. Based on the novel and play by Warren Miller. COOLEY HIGH 107 min. 1975 VC Feature Michael Schultz Home use - no classroom rights A fun-loving black "American Graffiti," about high school life in Chicago in the 1960's. Features a dynamic soundtrack of Motown music. C.O.P.S.: COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING STRATEGIES 40 min. 1991 VC #2939 MTI Film & Video Demonstrates the multiple roles of the police officer by following a citizen with a complaint throught to its resolution. COTTON COMES TO HARLEM 97 min. 1970 VC Feature Ossie Davis Home use-no classroom rights Two black cops suspect a preacher's back to Africa campaign is a swindle. Based on the by Chester Hines. CREOLE GISELLE 88 min. 1991 VC #2286 Dance Horizons The classical ballet is restaged by the Dance Theatre of Harlem. CROOKLYN 114 min. 1994 VC Feature Spike Lee Home use - no classroom rights Family life in a crowded but cozy Brooklyn neighborhood nicknamed "Crooklyn" by the Carmichaels, who experience one very special summer in their hometown under difficult but often wonderful circumstances. DANCE BLACK AMERICA 90 min. 1984 VC #0666 Pennabaker Assoc. A record of performances by black American dance companies at the 1983 Dance Black America Festival held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. DARKER SIDE OF BLACK 55 min. 1994 VC #1246 Isaac Julian The film investigates the social and political influences of rap and reggae music, its proponents, fans, detractors and critics. DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST 113 min. 1991 VC Feature Julie Dash A large African-American family prepares to move north at the dawn of the 20th century. DEALING WITH DISCRIMINATION 20 min. 1989 VC #2426 Dartnell Corp. Dramatizes discrimination complaints in the workplace as they relate to race, sex, age and national origin. THE DEADLY DECEPTION: THE TUSKEGEE STUDY 58 min. 1993 VC #3365 WGBH-TV Investigates the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphillis in the Negro Male, a medical experiment conducted in Alabama from 1932- 1972. DEEP BLUES 91 min. 1992 VC #3559 Robert Mugge A tribute to the Mississippi blues with performances by Booker T. Loury, R.L. Burnside, Jack Owens and many others. DIFFERENT DRUMMER: ELVIN JONES 30 min. 1986 VC #1841 Edward Gray Documents the background and style of jazz drummer Elvin Jones. DIGGING FOR SLAVES 50 min. 1989 VC #1983 BBC Archaeological excavations at the Middlebourg Plantation near Charleston, South Carolina, Mulberry Row at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home in Virginia, reveal details of African slave life and their contributions to American farming and culture. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DIVIDED UNION SERIES 51 min. 1987 Peter Batty 1. FORWARD TO SUMTER VC #1813 Examines the causes of the Civil War and illustrates the rise of the Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln, the moves toward secession in the South, industrialization in the North, and the impact of the cotton gin. Also traces the origins of slavery in North America. 2. BLOODY STALEMATE VC #1814 Examines the battles at First Manassas (Bull Run), Shiloh, and Antietam. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation cleverly turns the war into a fight to free the slaves rather than a dispute over states' rights. 3. HIGH TIDE OF THE CONFEDERACY VC #1815 In 1862, Lincoln's military commanders are squabbling, his political popularity is waning, and the North seems unable to exploit its industrial and numeric superiority. The Union's decisive victory at Gettysburg and the capture of Vicksburg just one day later mark a critical turning point. 4. TOTAL VC #1816 Examines the personal experiences of soldiers, civilians, and blacks through their songs, diaries, poems, paintings, memoirs, and letters. Also examines the changing face of warfare in light of new technological developments. 5. CONCLUSION AT APPOMATTOX VC #1817 General Lee surrenders to General Grant at Appomattox and Lincoln is assassinated 5 days later. This final episode ponders the South's legacy of defeat and the War's continuing impact on American life. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DIZZY GILLESPIE 20 min. 1965 MP #3986 Les Blank The trumpet player, Dizzy Gillespie, talks about his beginnings and musical ideas. DO THE RIGHT THING 120 min. 1989 Laserdisc Feature Spike Lee Traces the events which precipate a racial incident on a block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. DOING AS THEY CAN 25 min. 1987 VC #3027 American Social History Prod., Inc. A fugitive slave woman describes her life, work, and day-to-day resistance on a North Carolina plantation during the 1840s and 1850s. DRIVING MISS DAISY 99 min. 1989 VC Feature Bruce Beresford Home use-no classroom rights Examines the relationship between an elderly Jewish widow in Atlanta and her black driver. Based on the play by Alfred Uhry. DUKE IS TOPS 72 min. 1938 VC Feature William Nolte A successful singer nearly loses her man because his career as a producer may be over. DUTCHMAN 55 min. 1967 VC Feature Anthony Harvey A white women questions the middle-class aspirations of a black man she meets on the subway. She stabs him after he erupts in a rage and then moves on to another unsuspecting black man. THE EAV HISTORY OF JAZZ 49 min. 1986 VC #1842 Educational AV Billy Taylor traces jazz from its roots in slave work songs through to free jazz and the impact of electronic technology. ELLA FITZGERALD: SOMETHING TO LIVE FOR 86 min. 1999 VC #5367 Charlotte Zwerin Profiles "The first lady of song" from her amateur night appearance at the Apollo Theater in New York to her unparalleled success on stage and screen. Includes never-before-seen performance footage and interviews with musicians who worked with and admired her. THE EMPEROR JONES 72 min. 1933 VC Feature Dudley Murphy Home use - no classroom rights A drama in which an ambitious black man deposes the local ruler of a Caribbean island and declares himself emperor. With Paul Robeson. ETHNIC NOTIONS 58 min. 1986 VC #1801 and #3305 Marlon Riggs Demonstrates how racial stereotypes are perpetuated by analyzing the American media images of blacks presented over the past 150 years. THE EYE OF THE STORM 25 min. 1970 VC #0609 Guidance Assoc. Demonstrates the effects of bigotry by showing the changes in the behavior and learning patterns of third-graders when they are subjected to it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - EYES ON THE PRIZE: AMERICA'S CIVIL RIGHTS YEARS SERIES 6 x 60 min. 1986 Henry Hampton 1. AWAKENINGS, 1954-1956 VC #1996 Highlights events that initiated the freedom struggle of black Americans. 2. FIGHTING BACK, 1957-1962 VC #1997 Looks at lawsuits brought by black parents on behalf of their children, especially the critical 1954 Supreme Court Brown vs Board of Education decision. 3. AIN'T SCARED OF YOUR JAILS, 1961-1963 VC #1998 Focuses on the involvement of young people in the early years of the civil rights movement. 4. NO EASY WALK, 1961-1963 VC #1999 The civil rights struggle became a mass movement between 1962 and 1966 and federal government policy shifted in response to it. 5. MISSISSIPPI: IS THIS AMERICA?, 1962-1964 VC #2000 Shows the personal risks faced by ordinary citizens as they assumed responsibility for social change. 6. BRIDGE TO FREEDOM: 1965 VC #2001 Considers the overall gains made by civil rights protests and whether this progress was shared by northern urban blacks. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - EYES ON THE PRIZE 2: AMERICA AT RACIAL CROSSROADS 8 x 60 min. 1990 Henry Hampton 1. THE TIME HAS COME: 1964-1966 VC #2002 During the civil rights protests in the south, a sense of urgency and anger emerges from northern black communities best expressed by Malcolm X, national minister of the Nation of Islam. 2. TWO SOCIETIES: 1965-1968 VC #2003 In the mid-1960's, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference travel to Chicago to apply southern movement tactics to the urban north. A year later, in Detroit, blacks and the police clash on the streets. 3. POWER: 1967-1968 VC #2004 Urban blacks look for new ways to take control of their communities, including the vote, the street and schools. 4. THE PROMISED LAND: 1967-1968 VC #2005 Moved by increasing levels of poverty, Martin Luther King, Jr. and his staff organize a march of the poor to Washington, D.C. King is called away to help black sanitation workers on strike in Memphis, Tennessee, where he is assassinated. 5. AIN'T GONNA SHUFFLE NO MORE: 1964-1972 VC #2006 Rejecting images representing them as servile and inferior, a new generation of African Americans begins to redefine itself. 6. A NATION OF LAW?: 1968-1971 VC #2007 In Chicago, two Black Panthers are killed during a police raid and in New York, Attica prisoners take over the prison to attract national attention to intolerable conditions. 7. THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM: 1974- 1980 VC #2008 Examines the relationship between law and grassroots political struggle, chronicling black efforts for equality in jobs and education. 8. BACK TO THE MOVEMENT: 1979-1983 VC #2009 Examines political and economic changes experienced concurrently by Chicago in the north and Miami in the south. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FAMILY ACROSS THE SEA 56 min. 1991 VC #2722 South Carolina ETV Demonstrates how African American people kept their ties with their homeland despite centuries of oppression. THE FARM: LIFE INSIDE ANGOLA PRISON 100 min. 1998 VC #5111 Gabriel Films Follows the lives of six men imprisoned in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. FOR MY PEOPLE: THE LIFE AND WRITING OF MARGARET WALKER 27 min. 1998 VC #5038 Judith McCray Interviews with writers, scholars, and Walker herself, reveal her influence on Black women writers. FOXY BROWN 92 min. 1974 VC Feature Jack Hill Home use - no classroom rights A women seeks revenge when her brother causes the gangland murder of her boyfriend. FREDERICK DOUGLASS: AN AMERICAN LIFE 31 min. 1985 VC #2632 William Greaves Born a slave and entirely self-educated, Douglass played a critical role as an activist in the struggle for the emancipation of African Americans. FREEDOM BAGS 32 min. 1990 VC #2273 Abena Prod. Stories of African-American women who left the poverty of the post-Civil War south to work as domestics in northern cities. FREEDOM ON MY MIND 110 min. 1994 VC #3608 Connie Field/Marilyn Mulford Documentary of the civil rights movement and the events surrounding the Mississippi Voter Registration Project of the early 1960's. GET ON THE BUS 121 min. 1996 VC Feature Spike Lee Follows a group of men who are participating in the Million Man March in Washington, D.C. GIRL IN ROOM 20 63 min. 1946 VC Feature Spencer Williams A Texas girl moves to New York to make it as a singer, but runs into trouble with a man who offers to be her agent. GLASS SHIELD 108 min. 1994 VC Feature Charles Burnett Home use -- no classroom rights Am ambitious rookie cop and his station's only female deputy uncover widespread corruption when an innocent man is jailed for murder. GLORY 122 min. 1989 VC Feature Edward Zwick Home use -- no classroom rights Two idealist Bostonians lead America's first black regiment. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN 100 min. 1990 VC Feature American Playhouse Traces three generations of a southern black family as the move to New York and settle in Harlem. Based on the book by James Baldwin. GOIN' TO CHICAGO 58 min. 1994 VC #3308 A group of longtime Chicago residents returns to Greenville, Mississippi for a reunion with family and friends. GOTTA MAKE THIS JOURNEY: SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK 58 min. 1988 VC #1837 Eye of the Storm Prod. Documents the capella activists whose humanistic, socially conscious vocal textures voice the depth of the black struggle and newer struggles of feminism, ecology and nuclear sanity. A GREAT DAY IN HARLEM 60 min. 1995 VC #4065 Jean Bach A documentary about a photograph taken in 1958 by Art Kane of the jazz greats of the period. HARLEM RIDES THE RANGE 58 min. 1939 VC Feature Richard C. Khan A western musical about a hero who outwits a mining swindler. HEART OF THE MATTER 54 min. 1993 VC #3431 First Run/Icarus Films Story of HIV positive African American woman who deals with the knowledge of having the disease. A chorus of other women in the same situation underscore the universal nature of the problems and draws attention to the epidemic among women. HELL UP IN HARLEM 98 min. 1973 VC Feature Larry Cohen Home use - no classroom rights Sequel to Black Ceasar in which a gangster attempts to recover his position as lord of the Harlem underworld. HIDDEN HERITAGE: THE ROOTS OF BLACK AMERICAN PAINTING 52 min. 1990 VC #2364 Landmark Films Art historian David Driscoll traces the work of black American artists from the American Revolution to the Second World War. HI DE HO 65 min. 1947 VC Feature Josh Binney Big band sensation, Cab Calloway (portraying himself) becomes involved with two women; one of whom decides to take matters into her own hands by hiring a rival clubowner to do away with him. HOOP DREAMS 176 min. 1995 VC Feature Kartemquin Films/KTCA-TV Follows the high school careers of two inner-city Chicago youths as the pursue their dream of playing professional basketball. "I HAVE A DREAM...": THE LIFE OF MARTIN LUTHER KING 33 min. 1968 VC #1915 Bailey Films Describes Martin Luther King Jr.'s philosophy and his participation in the civil rights movements. I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 96 min. 1979 VC Feature Fielder Cook Home use - no classroom rights Autobiography by Maya Angelou about growing up in the South in the 1930's. Tells how she came into her own, experiencing prejudice, family difficulties, and a relationship with a teacher who taught her to respect learning, and herself. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I REMEMBER HARLEM SERIES 4 x 60 min. 1980 WNET/13 1. THE EARLY YEARS, 1630-1930 VC #1679 Looks at Harlem's early days, first as a native American fishing village, and finally as a black neighbourhood, including the Marcus Garvey movement. 2. THE DEPRESSION VC #1680 Explores Harlem's ethnic heritages, looking at the area's development against the background of the Great Depression. 3. TOWARD FREEDOM, 1940-1965 VC #1681 Examines Harlem's politics of protest along with some of its noted political leaders, and other community developments. 4. TOWARD A NEW DAY, 1965-1980 VC #1682 Charts Harlem's decline and then its rebirth and encouraging redevelopment, including the influence and stability of its churches. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - IDA B. WELLS: A PASSION FOR JUSTICE 55 min. 1989 VC #2111 William Greaves Documents the life of pioneering African-American journalist, social activist, suffragist and anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I'LL MAKE ME A WORLD SERIES 6 x 60 min. 1999 Blackside Prod. 1. LIFT EVERY VOICE VC #5217 Trials and triumphs of the first generation of African-American vaudeville performers, musicians and filmmakers. 2. WITHOUT FEAR OR SHAME VC #5218 Focuses on the the Harlem Renaissance, writers Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, and the women blues singers. Examines conflicts that arise over what art should express. 3. BRIGHT LIKE A SUN VC #5219 The Great Depression and World War II challenged African-American artists to expand their visions and dreams. Paul Robeson uses his artistry for social justice; sculptor Augusta Savage builds an art school in Harlem;Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker play bebop. 4. THE DREAM KEEPERS VC #5220 Looks at post-war African-American "firsts" in the arts and other areas of society. Focuses on playwright Lorraine Hansberry, ballerinas Delores Browne and Raven Wilkinson, and author James Baldwin. 5. NOT A RHYME TIME VC #5221 Between 1963 and 1986, black artists challenged mainstream aesthetics, identity and power, and ultimately defied the very notion of a mainstream. 6. THE FREEDOM YOU WILL TAKE VC #5222 In reaction to the narrow depiction of African Americans, the contemporary culture landscape has been transformed by the power of African-American film, dance, rap-music and spoken-word scene - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - IN A JAZZ WAY: A PORTRAIT OF MURA DEHN 28 min. 198? MP #6028 Katz/Chertler A portrait of dancer/choreographer Mura Dehn who filmed the great jazz and bebop dancers of Harlem's Savoy Ballroom in the 1940's and 1950's. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - IN BLACK AND WHITE SERIES 25 min 1992 Swiss TV 1. CHARLES JOHNSON VC #2929 Johnson describes his literary objective: to explore classic, metaphysical questions from East and West against the backdrop of African life and history. 2. GLORIA NAYLER VC #2928 Novelist Gloria Naylor discusses the value and difficulty of maintaining an African America identity in a world dominated by whites. 3. TONI MORRISON VC #2927 Shows how Toni Morrison returns to the pain of slavery and segregation to restore a wholeness to the black psyche through her novels. 4. ALICE WALKER VC #2926 Explores how writing has helped Walker to stave off depression and understand herself better. 5. AUGUST WILSON VC #2925 Playwright August Wilson describes his role as passing down the practical and spiritual wisdom of the African American community. 6. JOHN WIDEMAN VC #2924 Novelist John Wideman candidly discusses the dilemma of the committed African American intellectual torn between the urban underclass and a mainly white, middle class literary audience. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - IN SEARCH OF OUR FATHERS 60 min. 1992 VC #2835 Marco Williams Explores how African American women maintain the family unit and why men are not active participants. INTERNATIONAL SWEETHEARTS OF RHYTHM 30 min. 1986 MP #6027 Greta Schiller Interviews members of the multi-racial, all-woman American jazz band which performed in major clubs during the 1940's and entertained American troops overseas. INTRUDER IN THE DUST 90 min. 1949 VC Feature Clarence Brown Home use - no classroom rights A white boy rescues a black man from being lynched for a murder he did not commit. Based on the novel by William Faulkner. J'AI ETE AU BAL 84 min. 1989 VC #2154 Les Blank Presents the Cajun musical culture of Louisiana. Includes performances by Clifton and Cleveland Chenier, Wayne Toups and Dennis McGee. JAMES BALDWIN: THE PRICE OF THE TICKET 87 min. 1989 VC #2295 Nobody Knows Prod. A documentary on the American author and civil rights activist who drew attention to the racial problems between American blacks and whites. JAZZ IN EXILE 59 min. 1982 VC #3861 Rhapsody Films Explores the feelings of great American expatriate musicians through interviews and performances. JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY 77 min. 1959 VC #3048 Bert Stern Home use - no classroom rights Takes a look at the music, musicians, and spectators at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1958. JENI LEGON: LIVING IN A GREAT BIG WAY 50 min. 1999 VC #5356 National Film Board of Canada A talented dancer who became the first Black woman to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio. Includes interviews with tap dancer Fayard Nicholas and archival footage of Fayard and Harold Nicholas, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Fats Waller, Paul Robeson and Cab Calloway. JESSYE NORMAN, SINGER 74 min. 1991 VC #2573 Malachite Prod. Emphasizes the range and diversity of singer Jessye Norman. THE JOSEPHINE BAKER STORY 129 min. 1991 VC Feature Brian Gibson Home use - no classroom rights Story of the dancer who achieved fame through exotic and erotic performances on the American vaudeville circuit and on the stages in Paris. Juice 95 min. 1992 VC Feature Ernest R. Dickerson Four Harlem friends spend their days hanging out, looking for a way to get the power and respect they call juice. One of them plans to take it through an armed robbery, and wants his crew to be with him. JUKE JOINT 70 min. 1947 VC Feature Spencer Williams Two young men heading west stop in Dallas and meet the Holiday family. JULES AT EIGHT 24 min. 1996 VC #5139 Stanford University Follows 8-year-old jazz and blues guitarist Julian Lage, from the second-grade playground to his gigs at San Francisco's hottest night clubs. JUNGLE FEVER 135 min. 1991 VC Feature Spike Lee A black architect and his Italian secretary have an afair causing them to be scrutinized by their friends and cast out from their families. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - JVC/SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS ANTHOLOGY OF MUSIC AND DANCE IN THE AMERICAS SERIES: Multicultural Media 1. CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES 60 min. 1995 VC #3620 Eleven performances of instrumental, vocal and dance music from French-speaking communities in Canada and seven from native and English-speaking communities consisting of fiddling, guitar playing, work songs, reels and quadrilles. A wide representation of rural and urban traditions performed in African-American communities in the United States. 2. THE UNITED STATES: EUROPEANS TRADITIONS IN THE NEW WORLD 60 min. 1995 VC #3621 Cover a variety of immigrant musical traditions in the United States from Britain, Spain, France and Africa. Traditonal music began a process a hybridization which continues today, examples of which are given. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - KILLER OF SHEEP 79 min. 1977 VC Feature Charles Burnett Story of a slaughterhouse worker's struggle to survive economic and social obstacles. THE KILLING FLOOR 118 min. 1985 VC Feature Public Forum Prod. Tells of the events that led to the Chicago race riots in 1919. A young Black sharecropper leaves the South during World War 1 and becomes a laborer in the Chicago stockyards and along with other little-known stockyard workers of different ethnic backgrounds, he attempts to form an interracial industrial union in the face of growing conflict. THE KLAN: A LEGACY OF HATE IN AMERICA 29 min. 1982 MP #6219 Guggenheim Prod. Traces the history of the Ku Klux Klan and its activities against blacks, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants in the U.S. THE KU KLUX KLAN: A SECRET HISTORY 100 min. 1998 VC #5592 History Channel Rare footage captures Klan rituals and rites and archival footage chronicles the pivotal moments in the Klan's history. C. Edward Foster and Jeff Bary, the Klan's Grand Dragon and Imperial Wizard, talk about the organization and its ideals, while opponents like civil rights activist Julian Bond paint a very different picture. LADY DAY: THE MANY FACES OF BILLIE HOLIDAY 60 min. 1991 VC #4498 Toby Byron/Richard Saylor Rare TV and movie clips, along with commentary by a group of jazz instrumentalists and singers who knew her well. THE LAST OF THE BLUE DEVILS 90 min. 1979 VC #4541 Rhapsody Films How life and jazz and interact, the music covers the Basie big-band sound to Kansas City jazz and blues and the rock and roll that brought attention to Big Joe Turner in the 50s. LIBERTY STREET BLUES 78 min. 1988 VC #0917 National Film Board of Canada Explores the roots of New Orleans jazz and reveals a vital lifestyle that has survived. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS VIDEO COLLECTION 2 x 80 min. 1. THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CINEMA, I: WITHIN OUR GATES (1919) VC #3358 Oscar Micheaux A story of a young African American woman who seeks a Northern white patron for a Southern school for black children. 5. THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CINEMA, II:THE SCAR OF SHAME (1926) VC #3362 Frank Perugini An aspiring middle-class black man marries a woman to rescue her from ghetto crime and harassment but soon comes to shun her lower-class status. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LONG SHADOWS 88 min. 1987 VC #0428 Ross Spears Explores the ways in which the Civil War still influences American politics, economics and private beliefs. LOOKING FOR LANGSTON 47 min. 1989 VC #3696 Isaac Julian A tribute to Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance. LOWNDES COUNTY FREEDOM PARTY: THE RISE OF THE BLACK PANTHERS 25 min. 1995 VC #4545 Films for the Humanities Stokely Carmichael formed the Lowndes County Freedom Party to get blacks registered to vote. These efforts are examined against the backdrop of murder and intimidation which accompanied the struggle for civil rights. None of the Party's candidates were elected, but the groundwork had been laid for the disenfranchised in the South to gain political power. LYING LIPS 60 min. 1939 VC Feature Oscar Micheaux A nightclub singer is sent to prison for murdering her aunt, while her boyfriend attempts to prove her inocence. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MAKING SENSE OF THE SIXTIES SERIES 6 x 58 min. 1991 PBS Video 1. SEEDS OF THE SIXTIES VC #2304 Focuses on the descrimination that kept American blacks in poverty and shows how television revealed this condition to northern whites. 2. WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD VC #2305 Chronicles the years 1960 to 1964, focusing on the increasing political and social unrest in America. 3. BREAKING BOUNDARIES, TESTING LIMITS VC #2306 Depicts the Sixties youth rebellions and counterculture, the media's role in its development and impact, and society's response to it. 4. IN A DARK TIME VC #2307 Presents the 1968 tragic climax to the struggle for and against social change. 5. PICKING UP THE PIECES VC #2308 Documents the aftermath and consequences of the 60's mass social struggles. 6. LEGACIES OF THE SIXTIES VC #2309 Witnesses to the Sixties reflect upon the decade and assess the era's influence on contemporary America. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MALCOLM X 3 1/2 hrs. 1992 VC Feature Spike Lee Home use - no classroom rights Based on the book The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley. MALCOLM X: MAKE IT PLAIN 136 min. 1995 VC #3762 Blackside Prod. Story of political philosopher and visionary, Malcolm X, told through the memories of people who had close personal and working relationships with him. MANDINGO 121 min col 1975 VC Feature Richard Fleischer Shows the true brutalizing nature of slavery, which made victims of both owner and slave. MANCE LIPSCOMB AND LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS 60 min. 1991 VC #3553 Donald Ciro Music of Texax bluesmen Mance Lipscomb and Lightning Hopkins. MARCUS GARVEY: LOOK FOR ME IN THE WHIRLWIND 90 min. 2001 VC #5997 WGBH-TV Uses a wealth of archival film, photographs and documents to uncover the story of this Jamaican immigrant who between 1916 and 1921 built the largest black mass movement in world history. MARCUS GARVEY: TOWARDS BLACK NATIONHOOD 42 min. 1983 VC #0926 West German TV Examines Garvey's call for an independent black nation, which inspired the American civil rights movement and Third World liberation movements. MARIAN ANDERSON 58 min. 1991 VC #2634 PBS Video Biography of virtuosa Marian Anderson from her spiritual singing as a child at the Union Baptist Church in Philadelphia to her retirement in 1965. MARTIN LUTHER KING - THE LEGACY 79 min 1990 VC #2530 Media Guild Offers an intimate portrait of the civil rights leader and examines just how far his famous dream of racial equality has been realised today. MASSACHUSETTS 54TH COLORED INFANTRY 60 min 1991 VC #2753 Reel Deal Prod. Tells the story of the regiment who fought for the liberation of the African-Americans during the Civil War. MIDNIGHT RAMBLE 60 min. 1994 VC #3938 Shanachie Home Video Documentary recounting the history of the independent film industry that produced close to 500 "race movies" for African American audiences between 1910 and 1940. Focuses on the work of Oscar Micheaux. MIDNIGHT SHADOW 58 min. 1939 VC Feature George Randol A murder by the "midnight shadow" means work for two "bumbling" detectives as they work to clear their friend of murder. MILES OF SMILES, YEARS OF STRUGGLE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BLACK PULLMAN PORTER 58 min 1982 VC #2121 Columbia Hist. Soc. Describes the formation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Union under A. Philip Randolph and its impact on the American civil rights movement. MINGUS: CHARLIE MINGUS, 1968 58 min. 1968 VC #3858 Rhapsody Films Portrait of this great bassist/jazz composer and the hard times that came his way. Scenes of him conducting his big band, composing, singing and reciting his poetry. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MINORITY REPORTS SERIES: A KNOCKING AT THE GATE 28 min. 1964 VC #3585 Clive Hewitt (Study copy-restricted to SMIL Student demonstrators from North Carolina College tell about the motivation and philosophy that kept them going in spite of indignities. VOTE--AND THE CHOICE IS YOURS 28 min. 1964 VC #3586 Clive Hewitt Study copy-restricted to SMIL Students of Fayetteville State College describe why blacks often fail to participate in voting and other democratic processes. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MIRACLE IN HARLEM 80 min. 1948 VC Feature Jack Kemp An old woman, who runs a candy manufacturing business out of her home, is swindled by a big businessman. MISS EVERS, BOYS 118 min. 1997 VC Feature Joseph Sargent Based on the play by David Feldshuh. In 1932, Nurse Eunice Evers is invited to work with doctors on the "Tuskegee Experiment" to study the effects of syphilis. She faces a terrible dilemma when she learns the patients are denied treatment that could cure them. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MISSISSIPPI: THE RIVER OF SONG SERIES 4 X 60 min. 1999 Smithsonian Prod. 1. AMERICANS OLD AND NEW: MORTHERN MINNESOTA TO DOUDS, IOWA VC #5020 The northern section of the Mississippi is the contemporary American melting pot, full of acoustic music, polka, R&B, punk and alternative rock. 2. MIDWESTERN CROSSROADS: GALENA, ILLINOIS TO STE. GENEVIEVE, MISSOURI VC #5021 The center of the country is where the rougher, rural styles come face to face with big city sophistication. Old-time country and blues are honed and polished into bluegrass, rock 'n' roll and true soul music. 3. SOUTHERN FUSION: LA CENTER, KENTUCKY TO JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI VC #5022 Memphis forged the sounds of rockabilly and soul. In the Mississippi Delta, music is still deeply rooted in the soil. Secular music styles come back to the blues, and gospel is at its most heartfelt and powerful. 4. LOUISIANA, WHERE MUSIC IS KING: NATCHEZ, MISSISSIPPI TO DELACROIX ISLAND IN THE GULF OF MEXICO VC #5023 In the bayous of Louisiana, country and blues come together with French styles, creating the dance rhythms of Cajun and zydeco. New Orleans resounds with the rhumba-influenced rhythms of R&B and generations of jazz horns. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MISSISSIPPI MASALA 118 min. 1992 VC Feature Mira Nair An Indian family expelled from Uganda movies to Mississippi where their daughter falls in love with a black man. MO' BETTER BLUES 129 min. 1990 VC Feature Spike Lee Home use - no classroom rights Talented trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed by his music and indecisive about his girlfriends. But when he must come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined. MONK IN OSLO 33 min. 1993 VC #3556 Rhapsody Films Filmed record of a concert by the Theolonius Monk Quartet in Oslo in 1966. MOON OVER HARLEM 67 min. 1939 VC Feature Edgar G. Ulmer A musical gangster film which tells the story of a widow who unwittingly falls for a charismatic gangster involved in the numbers racket. MUMIA ABU-JAMAL: A CASE FOR REASONABLE DOUBT 74 min. 1996 VC Feature John Edginton Home use - no classroom rights America's most "celebrated" death row inmate, Mumia Abu-Jamal, speaks for the first time behind prison walls. MURDER IN HARLEM 102 mi. 1935 VC Feature Oscar Micheaux A nightwatchman is falsely accused of the murder of a young woman. MUSIC DISTRICT 57 min. 1995 VC #4160 California Newsreel Presents four vibrant but little-known African-American musical groups. NATIVE LAND 88 min. 1942 VC #3912 Leo Hurwitz/Paul Strand Combines documentary form with staged reenactments to lead the viewer on a tour of the U.S. and its ideologies as well as to look at the forces threatening to undermine it from within: capitalists, strikebreakers and the Ku Klux Klan. Narrated by Paul Robeson. NATIVE SON 91 min. 1950 VC Feature Pierre Chenal Home use - no classroom rights The story of Bigger Thomas who accidentally murders his white employer's daughter while working as a chauffeur. Based on the book by Richard Wright. THE NEGRO ENSEMBLE COMPANY 55 min. 1987 VC #2131 RKB Prod. Documents the history and accomplishments of the most productive and influential Black theatre company in the United States. NEVER TURN BACK: THE LIFE OF FANNIE LOU HAMER 57 min. 1983 VC #5624 Rediscovery Prod. Profiles the nonviolent motivator in the civil rights movement. Includes an interview with her, comments from individuals who knew her or her work, and scenes of her galvanizing civil rights workers. NO REGRET 40 min. 1994 VC #3699 Marlon Riggs Against a background of poetry and song, through quiet, articulate, sometimes defiant testimony, five gay black men of different ages and backgrounds discuss their lives with AIDS. THE ODYSSEY OF CAPTAIN HEALY 57 min. 1999 VC #5228 Waterfront Soundings Prod. Born a slave on a Georgia plantation, Healy ran away to San Francisco's Barbary Coast where he stood for American law and justice along a 30,000 mile coastline of a lawless frontier. OH FREEDOM AFTER WHILE 57 min. 1999 VC #5268 U.of Memphis/Webster University In January 1939, Missouri Bootheel sharecroppers staged a dramatic roadside protest against unjust treatment by local plantation owners. This spurred the U.S. government to develop new housing for displaced sharecroppers. Some demonstrators also established a remarkable farming community and learned how to make lasting change in their lives. ON THE ROAD WITH DUKE ELLINGTON 58 min. 1980 VC #5191 Drew Associates Features Duke Ellington in 1967 discussing and performing his music. ONCE UPON A TIME WHEN WE WERE COLORED 113 min. 1995 VC Feature Tim Reid Home use - no classroom rights A family holds together despite the adversities of growing up in the segregated South. PARIS IS BURNING 78 min. 1992 VC #2945 Jennie Livingston Story of the young men of Harlem who created "voguing" and stylized dance competitions as a form of gay self-affirmation. PASSIN' IT ON 57 min. 1993 VC #0234 Nostromos Moving Pictures Examines urban African-American life in the story of Black Panther leader Dhoruba Bin Wahad. PAUL ROBESON 118 min. 1988 VC Feature Lloyd Richards Home use - no classroom rights A play based on Robeson's life, first broadcast in 1979 and starring James Earl Jones. PAUL ROBESON: HERE I STAND 127 min. 1999 VC #5047 St. Clair Bourne The life and achievements of the athlete, singer, scholar and champion of the rights of the poor, disenfranchised and people of color. PAUL ROBESON, THE TALLEST TREE IN OUR FOREST 85 min. 1977 VC Feature Gil Noble Life and career of the singer, actor, and political activist with archival footage, still photographs and interviews with friends and admirers of Robeson. A PLACE OF RAGE 52 min. 1991 VC #2941 Pratibha Parmar Prominent black women comment upon experiences of black women, upon racial discrimination and its cultural effects in America and make suggestions which they hope will improve the future. THE POLITICS OF LOVE: IN BLACK AND WHITE 33 min. 1993 VC #3095 Mountaintop Prod. Examines interracial romance on American university campuses. Mixed couples discuss the positive and negative aspects of their relationship. PORGY AND BESS: AN AMERICAN VOICE 84 min. 1999 VC #5805 University of Michigan/Vanguard Films Chronicles the history of George and Ira Gershwin's uniquely American folk opera, set against the backdrop of America's turbulent struggle to resolve its racial inequities. POP MUSIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: PART 1: THE EARLY DECADE 32 min. 1986 VC #1867 Educational AV Presents the emergence of a distinctive American pop style at the turn of the century, following it to the emergence of rock n' roll in the 1950's. POP MUSIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: PART 2: INTO THE 1980'S 35 min. 1986 VC #1868 Educational AV Begins with the urban folk music revival in the late 1950's and early 1960's, culminating with advent of music videos in the early 1980's. PRINCESS TAM TAM 80 min. 1935 VC Feature Kino International Josephine Baker plays a native African girl turned into a princess by a wealthy French novelist. THE PROUD VALLEY 77 min. 1940 VC Feature Pen Tennyson Home use - no classroom rights Paul Robeson stars in this drama about a sailor's efforts to re-open a Welsh coal mine A QUESTION OF COLOR 58 min. 1992 VC #2931 Film Two Prod. Examines the issue of color consciousness within the black community. RACE: THE FLOATING SIGNIFIER 62 min. 1996 VC #4428 Sut Jhally Stuart Hall, a renowned public speaker and teacher, lectures on race and the meaning of racial signifiers like skin color at Goldsmiths' College, New Cross, London. Includes an interview with Hall by Sut Jhally. A RAISIN IN THE SUN 128 min. 1961 VC Feature Daniel Petrie A drama about a black family's escape from their frustrating life in a crowded Chicago apartment. Based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry. RAP, RACE AND EQUALITY 52 min. 1993 VC #3267 Some of rap's most important and controversial artists speak freely about racism, economic and social inequality and race relations. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - REPERCUSSIONS: A CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES 60 min. 1984 Third Eye Prod. 2. ON THE BATTLEFIELD: GOSPEL QUARTETS IN EFFERSON COUNTY,ALABAMA VC #1579 Seeks out places where gospel music has remained unchanged and features traditional unaccompanied male quartets. 3. LEGENDS OF RHYTHM AND BLUES VC #1580 Explores the music and life of some of the greatest blues performers who generated a unique West Coast music scene. 4. SIT DOWN AND LISTEN: THE STORY OF MAX ROACH VC #1581 Focuses on one of the greatest and most articulate performers to emerge from the movement known as bebop. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - REV. GARY DAVIS AND SONNY TERRY 60 min. 1991 VC #3554 Stefan Grassman/George Sempepos Performances by Rev. Gary Davis, vocals and guitar and Sonny Terry, vocals and harmonica. RICHARD WRIGHT 87 min. 1994 VC #3607 Madison Davis Lacy Biographical sketch of the Afro-American writer, Richard Wright. THE ROAD TO BROWN 50 min. 1989 VC #2620 California Newsreel The story of the legal assault on segregation by black lawyer Charles Houston whose battle against Jim Crow led to the landmark Brown vs Board of Education decision. ROOTS OF RESISTANCE: A STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD 58 min. 1990 VC #2301 Orlando Bagwell Archival material and personalized accounts of the network of escape routes known as the Underground Railroad and the dangers associated with it. ROSEWOOD 142 min. 1997 VC Feature John Singleton Home use - no classroom rights In 1923 a black town in Florida was burned to the ground, its people murdered because of a lie. Only a few escaped because of the compassion of a few extraordinary people. SATURDAY NIGHT, SUNDAY MORNING: THE TRAVELS OF GATEMOUTH MOORE 70 min. 1993 VC #2932 Co-Media Prod. This film documents the life of Arnold Dwight "Gatemouth" Moore, a prominent blues singer who left the stage at the height of his career to preach and sing gospel music. SCOTTSBORO: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY 90 min. 2000 VC #5985 Social Media Productions In 1931, two white women stepped from a boxcar in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on a train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the twentieth century. SEVEN SONGS FOR MALCOLM X 55 min. 1993 VC #3669 John Akomfrah Traces the life and death of Malcolm X through archival footage and from recollections of the people who knew him. SHATTERING THE SILENCES 86 min. 1996 VC #4587 Gail Pellett Prod. Explores issues of faculty diversity in American higher education focusing on the experience of eight minority scholars in the humanities and social sciences at various institutions. SHIP OF SLAVES: THE MIDDLE PASSAGE 50 min. 1997 VC #5832 Christen Harty Schaefer Details the trials and tribulations of the slaves on their voyage from Africa to the Americas on slave ships. This transatlantic slave trade which lasted 300 years was known in history as the black holocaust. SHOW BOAT 115 min. 1936 VC Feature James Whale Home use - no classroom rights The story of life and love among a theatrical troupe on a Mississippi riverboat. SKIN DEEP 53 min. 1995 VC #3854 A diverse group of college students reveal their honest feelings and attitudes about race and racism. Students are interviewed alone and then discuss the issues in a group setting. SKINHEADS USA: THE PATHOLOGY OF HATE 54 min. 1993 VC #4434 Home Box Office Follows an American neo-Nazi skinhead organization's day-to-day activities at its headquarters, white power rallies and recruitment drives, and visits a prison where four skinheads are jailed for the murder of a black man. SLAUGHTER'S BIG RIP-OFF 94 min. 1973 VC Feature Gordon Douglas Home use - no classroom rights Slaughter is battling the Mob, this time in Los Angeles. SOLD DOWN THE RIVER 63 min. 1992 VC #3321 British Broadcasting Corporation A history of Black Americans, from the Emancipation Proclamation, to the Civil war anniversary celebrations in the 1920's, by which time civil rights for Black Americans had been eroded into racial segregation and discrimination. SOMETHING WITHIN ME 55 min. 1992 VC #953 CK Studios St. Augustine's School for the Arts, located in the poorest section of the South Bronx, teaches students music to provide them with discipline and self-confidence. A SON OF AFRICA 29 min. 1996 VC #4158 Alrick Riley/California Newsreel Olaudah Equiano was an 18th-century African slave who bought his freedom and wrote an autobiography that influenced the abolitionist movement. SON OF INGAGI 65 min. 1940 VC Feature Spencer Williams, Jr. A melodrama about hidden gold, murder and theft with a happy ending. THE SONGS ARE FREE: BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON WITH BILL MOYERS 58 min. 1997 VC #4429 Public Affairs Television Traces the history of communal singing and the repertoire rooted in the Black church and its role in resistance movements from the Underground Railroad through the Civil Rights movement and into the 90's. THE SOUND OF JAZZ 58 min. 1990 VC #4549 Vintage Jazz Classics Record of a 1957 CBS Studio 58 performance by Red Allen, Thelonius Monk, Count Basie, Billie Holiday and Jimmy Giuffre. SOULS OF SIN 72 min. 1949 VC Feature Powell Lindsay When a gambler is killed in Harlem, his roomate is hired to write about his life. SPEAK OF ME AS I AM: THE STORY OF PAUL ROBESON 59 min. 1998 VC #5451 NJN Public TV Overview of the life of the star athlete, world-renowned singer and actor, political activist and Communist sympathizer. Features interviews with academic experts and contemporaries such as Studs Terkel, Martin Duberman, Pete Seeger, and Oscar Brown, Jr. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE SPIRIT MOVES: A HISTORY OF BLACK SOCIAL DANCE ON FILM, 1900-1986: Mura Dehn 1. JAZZ DANCE FROM THE TURN OF THE CENTURY TO 1950 41 min. 1987 VC #0244 Demonstrations of ragtime and jazz dance forms by artists at the Savoy Ballroom of Harlem. 2. SAVOY BALLROOM OF HARLEM, 1950'S 31 min. 1987 VC #0245 Ladies free night and other dancing by the general public at the Savoy Ballroom. 3. THE POSTWAR ERA, 1950-1975 36 min. 1987 VC #0246 Dances from the Bebop era include solo concert improvisations; Mambo; Applejack challenge danced by the general public in P.S. 28, Brooklyn. 4. POSTWAR ERA, 1950-1975 20 min. 1987 VC #0247 Mama Lu Parks and company demonstrate an extensive rock'n roll step vocabulary at the Savoy Manor in the Bronx. 5. ARTISTS OF THE THEATER 43 min. 1987 VC #0248 Featuring "Pigmeat" Markham, James Berry, Baby Seales, Alfred Gibson, "Mama Lu" Louise Parks, members of the Mura Dehn Traditional Dance Company. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - STORIES OF CHANGE 58 min. 1991 VC #0899 New Day Films Profiles four ethnically diverse women while exploring the issues of alcoholism, drug abuse, domestic violence, death and grieving, as well as problems faced by refugees and immigrants. STORMY WEATHER 78 min. 1943 VC Feature Andrew Stone Home use - no classroom rights Cab Calloway and Fats Waller portray themselves in this musical about a husband and wife struggling to make it in show business. THE STORY OF ENGLISH SERIES 5. BLACK ON WHITE 60 min. 1986 VC #1390 MacNeil-Lehrer Prod. Traces the history of black American English from its beginnings on the West Coast of Africa to its arrival in large Northern cities during the 1920's. STRAIGHT UP RAPPIN' 29 min. 1993 VC #0952 Green Room Prod. Presents rap as a powerful street poetry of the nation's disenfranchised. THE STRANGE DEMISE OF JIM CROW: HOW HOUSTON DESEGREGATED ITS PUBLIC ACCOMODATIONS, 1959-1963 57 min. 1998 VC #5269 California Newsreel Told by the participants themselves, reveals the behind-the-scenes compromises, negotiations, and the controversial news black-outs which helped bring about the quiet 1960 desegregation of Houston's hotels, restaurants, lunch counters and theatres. STREET SOLDIERS 88 min. 1996 VC #4767 National Black Programing Consortium The Omega Boys Club of San Francisco is a grassroots organization founded by Joe Marshall, Jr. and Jack Jaqua, that helps troubled youths. Follows three juvenile offenders struggling to turn their lives around with the help of the staff who function as parents, and mentors. STRUGGLES IN STEEL 58 min. 1996 VC #4157 Tony Buba Traces a century of black industrial labour history from the use of blacks as strikebreakers in the 1892 Homestead Strike, the CIO organizing drives of the 1930's, the discrimination after World War II and the 1974 agreement which compelled companies to set targets for the promotion of minorities. SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSS SONG 97 min. 1971 VC Feature Melvin Van Peebles Home use - no classroom rights A young hustler is radicalized after witnessing the beating of a black revolutionary by two white police. SWING 68 min. 1938 VC Feature Oscar Micheaux A tribute to African-American music. TALES OF MANHATTAN 120 min. 1942 VC Feature Julien Duvivier Home use - no classroom rights An episodic film following the travels of a fancy tail coat which goes from riches to rags over the course of the story. With Paul Robeson. TEN MINUTES TO LIVE 65 min. 1932 VC Feature Oscar Micheaux A mystery musical built around a threatening note which gives the heroine only ten minutes to live. THAT'S BLACK ENTERTAINMENT: RACE MOVIES 60 min. 1997 VC #5513 Thomas Cripps Explores the involvement of black filmmakers in filmmaking from its earliest days through the 1920s, with particular emphasis on the work of James Weldon Johnson, Oscar Micheaux, and Ricard D. Maurice. THAT'S BLACK ENTERTAINMENT: THE SOUNDIES ERA 47 min. 1997 VC #5514 Thomas Cripps A vintage collection of sixteen three-minute music videos called "Soundies" which were originally screened on a visual jukebox called Panorams during the 1940's. A TIME FOR BURNING 58 min. 1966 VC #4107 Lutheran Film Associates Follows the efforts of the white middle class Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska as the pastor and congregation attempt to integrate the church. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 131 min. 1962 VC Feature Robert Mulligan Home use - no classrom rights Two children in a southern town are thrust into an adult world of bigotry when their lawyer father chooses to defend a black man unustly accused of murder. Based on the book by Harper Lee. TONGUES UNTIED 55 min. 1989 VC #0088 Marlon Riggs Poetry, personal testimony and drama unite to oppose the derogatory accusations, judgements and jokes about black, male and gay identity. TROUBLE BEHIND 56 min. 1990 VC #2294 Cicada Films Traces the origins of contemporary racism in Corbin, Kentucky, a seemingly typical American small town. TRUCK TURNER 91 min. 1974 VC Feature Jonathan Kaplan Home use - no classroom rights Truck Turner and his partner Jerry are tough, modern-day bounty hunters on the trail of a three-time loser and well-connected pimp who jumped bail. TUSGEKEE AIRMEN 50 min. 1998 VC #5515 Cinebar Productions Honors the combat record and pivotal role in breaking the race barrier in the military of the Tuskegee Airmen (332nd Fighter Group and 99th Fighter Squadron of the U.S. Army Air Corps). TWO DOLLARS AND A DREAM 56 min. 1988 VC #1579 Stanley Nelson Biography of Madame C.J. Walker, the child of slaves freed by the Civil War, who became America's first self-made millionairess. UNDERSTANDING PREJUDICE 90 min. 1992 VC #0878 Thinking Allowed Prod. Jeffrey Mishlove interviews Price Cobbs who describes the principles of ethnotherapy designed to facilitate a deep examination of the ways we think about other groups. UNDERSTANDING RACE 52 min. 1999 VC #5051 Learning Channel Considers race within historical, scientific, and cultural contexts. Topics include the anthropological unity of Homo sapiens; sanctioned discrimination; cultural biases based on racial stereotypes; and the underlying humanity that links everyone. VOICES AND VISION SERIES LANGSTON HUGHES 60 min. 1987 VC #2754 N.Y. Center for Visual History On location footage in Senegal, France, Kansas and Harlem chronicles the life and work of this unique poet. WAITING TO EXHALE 124 min. 1995 VC Feature Forest Whitaker Home use - no classroom rights The story of four African-American women who journey through a modern labyrinth of husbands and lovers, jobs and makeovers. Based on the novel by Terry McMillan. WE SHALL OVERCOME 58 min. 1989 VC #2127 Ginger Group Narrated by Harry Belafonte, provides a history of the song, and its influence on the civil rights movement. WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT 118 min. 1993 VC Feature Brian Gibson The turbulent relationship of Ike and Tina Turner eventually forces Tina to leave and find the courage to believe in herself. WHEN WE WERE KINGS 89 min. 1996 VC Feature Leon Gast Home use - no classroom rights The untold story of the Rumble in the Jungle. Offers a ringside seat to the fights between two all-time heavyweight champions, George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. WHERE IS MY MAN TONIGHT? 91 min. 1943 VC Feature Spencer Williams A young man is drafted into the Army and goes to serve to uphold a family tradition and to please his girlfriend. WILD WOMEN DON'T HAVE THE BLUES 58 min. 1989 VC #2012 Calliope Film Through historic performances and recordings, captures the spirit of such pioneering blueswomen as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainy. WITH FINGERS OF LOVE: ECNOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 27 min. 1995 VC #4552 U. of Alabama Historical profile of the Freedom Quilting Bee, a cooperative in Wilcox County, Alabama that makes quilts as a business and as art. WOMEN'S WORK 30 min. 1996 VC #1410 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Traces the impact of a week-long community residency in Richmond, Virginia, in which the Urban Bush Women, a theatre/dance group, express the joys and sorrows experienced by all women, especially African-Americans. A WRITER'S WORK WITH TONI MORRISON, PARTS I AND II 55 min. 1990 VC #1591 Public Affairs TV Author Toni Morrison discusses her work, life, philosophy of love, and the African-American presence in American literature with journalist Bill Moyers. ZAJOTA AND THE BOOGIE SPIRIT 20 min. 1989 VC #2580 Ayoka Chengira A folk tale that incorporates African rhythms and dance in portraying the history of African-Americans. ZOU ZOU 92 min. 1934 VC Feature Kino International Josephine Baker stars in a semi-autobiographical tale of a laundress who becomes the toast of Parisian night life.
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