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Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Premiering on PBS, Vivian travels the changing South in search of the dishes that connect all, dumplings, hand pies, porridge and more, but which are expressed in delightfully different ways across cultures. Along the way, she meets new friends and teachers, and as she says, she discovers how breaking bread and sharing a meal can create a comfortable place to have meaningful, memorable conversations.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lily Owens is a young girl who lives on the peach farm that her abusive father owns. Rosaleen is a black woman hired by Lily's father to be a stand-in mother for Lily. When Rosaleen and Lily walk into town they are approached by some white men. Rosaleen insults these racists by standing up for her rights. The angry men give her a beating and she ends up in the hospital. Lily's father rescues Lily but not Rosaleen so Lily talks Rosaleen into running...
8) Green book
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on The Green Book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the...
9) Roots
Language
English
Description
Alex Haley's Roots, in which he traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors was captured and sold into slavery. Follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boy's abduction to America and continued throughout the generations that followed.
11) Paper moon
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Description
A smooth-talking con man and a nine-year-old orphan are up to tricks in depression-era Kansas. Also includes a prologue by Peter Bogdanovich in which he shares insights about being a director and goes behind the scenes of Paper Moon.
14) The green mile
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A death row inmate in a Southern prison possesses the unusual gift of healing. A guard discovers the inmate's miraculous power and begins to question the man's guilt.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Hushpuppy is a six-year-old living in an isolated bayou community. When her father Wink becomes ill, she sets off for the outside world in an attempt to help him. The journey to save her father is delayed by a 'busted' universe that reverses weather patterns and brings about long-extinct animals. Can Hushpuppy save the day?
16) Black snake moan
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Lazarus is an extremely religious man who is broken hearted after his wife leaves him for his own brother. Rae is the town slut, apparently afflicted with the "disease" of uncontrollable nymphomania. After a night of hard partying and sleeping around, Rae, is beaten up and left by the roadside near Lazarus' house. Lazarus takes her in and chains her to his radiator while trying to "cure" her insatiability. Eventually, the two become friends and help...
18) Tank
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Sergeant-Major Zack Carey is completing his final stint of duty at a post in a small southern town. After defending a prostitute, he finds himself doing battle with the town's sheriff. When Zack's son Billy is jailed on a phony drug charge, the Sergeant takes justice into his own hands with help from his personal World War II Sherman Tank.
19) The green mile
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A death row inmate in a Southern prison possesses the unusual gift of healing. A guard discovers the inmate's miraculous power and begins to question the man's guilt.
20) Christmas cars
Publisher
Maven Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2019
Language
English
Description
John Schneider from THE DUKES OF HAZZARD, plays "Uncle Denver" instead of "BO DUKE" in the his first ever Christmas family movie. The story is based on actual events in John Schneider's life, from loosing everything in the floods of 2016, to having to sell his beloved Bo's General Lee in order to save the studio. This is not just a car movie, or a love story, its about one man's dream, his faith in humanity, and God sends good Samaritan, when he looses...
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