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LE GRAND BLANC DE LAMBARENE
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 93 minutes, Cameroon / France, 1995, in French with English subtitles |
| A revisionist perspective on Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer rewrites the history of colonialism from the point of view of the colonized. MORE... |
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GUIMBA THE TYRANT
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 93 minutes, Mali, 1995, in Bambara and Peul with English subtitles |
| An historical allegory by Cheick Oumar Sissoko tells the tale of a tyrant overthrown. MORE... |
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THE HERO
(O HEROI)
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 97 Minutes, Angola, 2005, In Portuguese with English subtitles |
Winner, best foreign feature, the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
The Hero (O Herói) tells the story of Angola, a nation attempting to reconstruct itself after 40 continual years of anti-colonial and civil warfare, through the story of a veteran who has lost his leg, a prostitute who has lost a child and an orphaned boy. MORE... |
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HERSKOVITS AT THE HEART OF BLACKNESS
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 57 minutes, 2009,  |
| A compelling examination of the career of Melville J. Herskovits, the pioneering American anthropologist of African Studies and controversial intellectual who established the first African Studies Center at an American university and authored, The Myth of the Negro Past. MORE... |
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HOMEGOINGS
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 56 minutes, 2013, English Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired
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| Homegoings takes an up-close look at the rarely seen world of undertaking in the black community, where funeral rites draw on a rich palette of tradition, history and celebration. It reveals the special status of undertakers in the community; borne out of their permanence, their economic stability, and the necessities of the segregation period. It film paints a portrait of the dearly departed, their grieving families and a man who sends loved ones "home." MORE... |
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HOXIE: THE FIRST STAND
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 56 minutes, 2003, |
| Documents the first battle to implement the Brown vs. Board of Education school desegregation decision fought in the small, rural town of Hoxie, Arkansas. MORE... |
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JULY '64
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 54 minutes, 2006, |
| Summer, 1964: Violence erupted on a hot July night in Rochester, New York. July '64 tells the story of an unrest that altered the course of history in Rochester, and predicted urban unrest throughout the American North. MORE... |
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KARMEN GEI
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| DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 82 minutes, Senegal, 2001, in French and Wolof with English subtitles |
| A retelling of the celebrated Carmen myth set in contemporary Senegal to African music and dance. MORE... |
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KEITA: THE HERITAGE OF THE GRIOT
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DVD and DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal, 94 minutes, Burkina Faso, 1995, in French and Jula with English subtitles
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| A young boy and his distant ancestor engage in parallel quests to understand their destinies and to know the meaning of their names. In so doing, Keita makes the case for an "Afrocentric" education, where African tradition, not an imported Western curricula is the necessary starting point for African development. MORE... |
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