Al Freeman
1) Malcolm X
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Screen version of the life of Malcolm X, who through his religious conversion to Islam, found the strength to rise up from a criminal past to become an influential civil rights leader.
Series
American experience volume 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Story of a mostly forgotten crusader for Black and women's rights, Ida B. Wells Barnett, born in slavery on a plantation in Mississippi. She very effectively used the press and the written word to sway public opinion on matters from post civil war lynching to rights for women and helping secure freedom for supposed perpetrators of the Arkansas race riots. Toni Morrison reads passages from Ida's memoirs as part of the way the story is told.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Training day: For a rookie cop staying on the right side of the line that separates cop from criminal will be the most challenging thing he has ever done, because his senior partner is an undercover narc, meaner than any of L.A's mean streets.
The pelican brief: Two Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everyone else wants her dead.
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