Videos on History

Akwantu the journey 2012

Documents the struggle for freedom of the legendary Maroons of Jamaica, former enslaved Africans, who were able to flee the plantations and slave ships to form communities in some of the most inhospitable regions of the island. Poorly armed and outgunned, these brave warrior engaged the mighty British Empire over an 80-year period and were victorious. As a result, two peace trieaties were signed between the British and the Maroons in 1738/39 that established Maroon self-government in Jamaica. No where else in the New World had Africans enjoyed such a degree of autonomy, coming almost sixty years before the Haitian Revolution, and more than one hundred years before the Emancipation Proclamation that ended slavery in the United States. 1 videodisc (87 min.)

MEDIA 10-5413

 

Amazing grace 2007

Michael Apted, Steven Knight, Ioan Gruffudd, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon, Albert Finney, Youssou N'Dour, Ciaraan Hinds, David Arnold, Bristol Bay Productions (Firm), Sunflower Productions, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Ltd

A dramatization of the life of the human rights activist, cultural reformer and member of Parliament, William Wilberforce who sustained a twenty-year fight in 19th century England, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade. Wilberforce encountered intense opposition from members of Parliament but his minister John Newton, a reformed slave ship captain who penned the hymn "Amazing Grace" urged him to see the cause through. 1 videodisc (118 min.)

MEDIA 10-1386

 

And still I rise 200-?

Prominent black women comment on the history and experiences of the African slave woman in white European society. Focuses on the sexuality of black women as perceived by Western society, from the domesticity and servility of the slave era to the visual exploitation of stereotypes in modern media. Includes interviews with Caron Wheeler (singer), Buchi Emecheta (novelist), Stella Dadzie (writer) along with many others. 1 videodisc (30 min.)

MEDIA 10-5451

 

Behind forgotten eyes 2008?

Anthony Gilmore, Alex Ferrari, Yujin Kim, Enigma Factory, Inc, Nameless Films, LLC, and Filmakers Library, inc

"While Korea groaned under the harsh colonial rule of Imperial Japan from 1932 until 1945, the Japanese military coerced, tricked, and forced more than 200,000 women of Korea into a brutal and systematic form of sexual slavery on an unimaginable scale...Behind Forgotten Eyes presents the stories of a few brave Korean women who have come forward and broken the silence exposing a past that some may want to stay buried...To this day, the Japanese government has yet to formally apologize or pay compensation to these women--Container.". 1 videodisc (78 min.)

MEDIA 10-1678

 

Burn! 2005, 1969

Marlon Brando, Evaristo Maarquez, Renato Salvatori, Gillo Pontecorvo, Alberto Grimaldi, Franco Solinas, Giorgio Arlorio, United Artists Corporation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Sir William Walker is sent to secure a plantation at a Portuguese colony. While there be befriends Jose and Teddy, and plants the seeds of revolution in their heads. Years later he must go back and stop the revolution that he helped begin. 1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.)

MEDIA                 MEDIA 10-1636                   2-41

 

Chicago, 1968 2013

Filmed segments documenting the events around the race riots and Democractic Nation Convention in Chicago, 1968. 1 videodisc (80 min.)

MEDIA 10-4904

 

Chronicle 2002, 1992

Jonathan Dent and David Drew

Provides many fascinating and surprising details at excavations of 18th-century slave quarters on Middleburg Plantation near Charleston; at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, whose slave holdings seem so irreconcilable with his expressed views on human freedom; and at Colonial Williamsburg, which until recently suppressed information about the lives of the slaves, who made up over half the town's population. 1 videodisc (50 min.)

MEDIA 10-128

 

The Diambourou slavery and emancipation in Kayes - Mali 2014

"The African slave trade was officially abolished in French Soudan (present-day Mali) by the colonial authorities in 1905, but effective emancipation of formerly enslaved populations was in fact a lengthy process, the repercussions of which were still felt long after Mali's independence in 1960. This documentary tells the story of those who resisted slavery by escaping slave masters and founding new independent and free communities in the district of Kayes in the first half of the 20th century. The film presents a unique audio-visual archive of slave emancipation." -- Container. 1 videodisc (23 min.)

MEDIA 10-4990

 

Egalite for all Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution 2009

The Haitian Revolution represents the only successful slave revolution in history; it created the world's first Black republic. At the forefront of the rebellion was General Toussaint Louverture, an ex-slave whose genius was admired by allies and enemies alike. 1 videodisc (60 min.)

MEDIA 10-1403

 

Le grand blanc de Lambaraenae The great white man of Lambaraenae 2008?

Bassek Ba Kobhio, Serge Lascar, Hugues Nonn, Andrae Wilms, Marisa Berenson, Alex Descas, Elisabeth Bourgine, Philippe Maury, Anne-Marie Pisani, Marcel Mvondo, Magaly Berdy, Michel Peyrelon, Edembe Gomez, Dany Boon, L.N. Production, CENECI, Films Terre Africaine, Chrysalide Films, Agence de coopaeration culturelle et technique, and California Newsreel (Firm)

"Revisionist perspective on Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize winner and secular saint of the colonial era. ... Shot on the site of Schweitzer's hospital in Gabon, the film reveals a man blinded to the people around him by his own spiritual self absorption and arrogance. For Schweitzer to see himself as a stern but loving father, he had to cast Africans as childlike primitives who needed to be protected from the temptations of modernity. ... For [Cameroonian filmmaker Bassek] Ba Kobhio, the ultimate evil of colonialism was in its inability to value the cultural difference and creative potential in Africans themselves. He represents this through the figure of Bissa, a beautiful concubine the local chief gives to le Grand Blanc, but whom he rejects until the night of his death. Ironically the film's moral comes from a famous remark by Schweitzer himself: "All we can do is allow others to discover us, as we discover them.""--Container. 1 videodisc (93 min.)

MEDIA 10-1961

 

Harem c2002

Greg Stebner, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Dilara Batmazol, Hatice Kaleli, History Channel (Television network), Arts and Entertainment Network, New Video Group, and Paladin InVision

During the reign of the Ottoman Empire, hundreds of women were brought as slaves to the imperial harem at Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. Most would spend their lives as the personal property of the Sultan, but some would learn that sex equals power. A feature-length look at a vanished world that long captivated the West. These are the stories of the women who dared to use their skills of seduction to gain power and prestige and the unexpected inner workings of the Ottoman harem. 1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.)

MEDIA 10-540

 

Jud Seuss c2008

Veit Harlan, Eberhard Wolfgang Meoller, Ludwig Metzger, Ferdinand Marian, Kristina Seoderbaum, Heinrich George, Werner Krauss, Albert Florath, Eugene Kleopfer, Lion Feuchtwanger, Terra Filmkunst (Firm), and International Historic Films Inc

This notorious Nazi propaganda historical costume melodrama is based on the Nazi version of the novel of the same title by Lion Feuchtwanger, which is based on the real historical character of Josef Seuss Oppenheimer who was a Jewish tax advisor to Karl Alexander during the early 1700's and was publicly executed in Stuttgart for manipulation of state funds. 1 videodisc (95 min.)

MEDIA 10-7871

 

An unlikely friendship c2002

Diane Bloom, Florence Gray Soltys, Lewis Lipsitz, Ann Atwater, C. P Ellis, and In-Focus (Firm)

In July 1971, as the Southern city of Durham, N.C., struggled to cope with the racial upheaval of desegregation, community leaders gathered to discuss civic and school conditions.  The 10-day meeting was co-chaired by Ann Atwater, an activist representing the Black community, and C.P. Ellis, who was one of the 10 Exalted Grand Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).  By the end of the congress, Ellis had publicly destroyed his KKK membership card, and he and Atwater -- who had disliked him on sight -- had forged a friendship that endures to this day. 1 videodisc (45 min.)

MEDIA 10-1883

 

Aboliçăo Abolition 1988

Sozimo Bulbul, Reinaldo Cozer, Edmar Morel , Luís Carlos Prestes, Muniz Sodré, Beatriz do Nascimento, Joel Rufino, Thereza Santos, Gilberto Freyre, and Correia Leite

An examination of the history of slavery in Brazil and the current racial situation of Black Brazilians on the 100th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. Examines the contemporary political, economic, social and cultural issues faced by Black Brazilians through interviews with musicians, politicians, activists, people in government, ambassadors, social workers, sport stars, actors, street kids, farmers and others. 1 videocassette (150 min.)

MEDIA 2-5036

 

The African burial ground an American discovery 1994

Christopher Moore, David Kutz, Ruby Dee, and Ossie Davis

Explores the history and archeological excavation of a burial ground for African slaves discovered in lower Manhattan Island, New York, during construction of Federal office building in the summer of 1991. Relates also the effect of the discovery on understanding the role of Afro-Americans in colonial American life. 1 videocassette (118 min.)

 MEDIA  DANA  2-5751  643

 

The Africans. Program 4, Tools of exploitation  1986

Ali Al'Amin Mazrui

This program traces the colonial economic legacy, the development of slavery, and European control of Africa's natural resources, with special attention to the roles played by Belgium and Great Britain. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-1167

 

Aimé Césaire a voice for history 1994

Aimé Césaire, Euzhan Palcy, and Annick Thébia-Melsan

3 videocassettes (160 min.)

MEDIA 2-5024 --5026

 

Amazing grace 2007

Michael Apted, Steven Knight, Ioan Gruffudd, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon, Albert Finney, Youssou N'Dour, Ciaraan Hinds, David Arnold, Bristol Bay Productions (Firm), Sunflower Productions, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Ltd

A dramatization of the life of the human rights activist, cultural reformer and member of Parliament, William Wilberforce who sustained a twenty-year fight in 19th century England, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade. Wilberforce encountered intense opposition from members of Parliament but his minister John Newton, a reformed slave ship captain who penned the hymn "Amazing Grace" urged him to see the cause through. 1 videodisc (118 min.)

MEDIA 10-1386

 

America's black warriors two wars to win 1998

Mort Zimmerman, Norman Stahl, Don Horan, Fritz Weaver, and Colin L Powell

The video features numerous African-American WWII veterans, who speak with brutal honesty about the prejudice they encountered and the battles they fought. 1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.)

DANA 1812

 

And still I rise 1993

Ngozi A Onwurah, Kanayo S Onwurah, Sarah Carr, and Suzette Llewellyn

Prominent black women comment on the history and experiences of the Black slave woman in white European society.  Film uses images from popular culture to reveal the way media misrepresented Black women's sexuality which in turn impacted on the real lives of Black women.  Includes interviews with Caron Wheeler (singer), Buchi Emecheta (novelist), Stella Dadzie (writer) along with many others. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

MEDIA 2-1955

 

The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman 1994, 1973

Ernest J Gaines, Robert Christiansen, Rick Rosenberg, Tracy Keenan Wynn, John Korty, Cicely Tyson, Richard Dysart, and Katherine Helmond

Presents the story of the long life of Miss Jane Pittman, who began her life as a slave in the South and who marched for her civil rights in the 20th century at the age of 110. 1 videocassette (106 min.)

DANA 1033

 

Behind forgotten eyes 2008?

Anthony Gilmore, Alex Ferrari, Yujin Kim, Enigma Factory, Inc, Nameless Films, LLC, and Filmakers Library, inc

"While Korea groaned under the harsh colonial rule of Imperial Japan from 1932 until 1945, the Japanese military coerced, tricked, and forced more than 200,000 women of Korea into a brutal and systematic form of sexual slavery on an unimaginable scale...Behind Forgotten Eyes presents the stories of a few brave Korean women who have come forward and broken the silence exposing a past that some may want to stay buried...To this day, the Japanese government has yet to formally apologize or pay compensation to these women--Container.". 1 videodisc (78 min.)

MEDIA 10-1678

 

Beloved 1998

Akosua Busia, Richard LaGravenese, Adam Brooks, Edward Saxon, Jonathan Demme, Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Beah E Richards, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Albert Hall, and Toni Morrison

"On a difficult journey to find freedom, Sethe is constantly confronted by the secrets that have haunted her for years. Then, an old friend from out of her past unexpectedly reenters her life. With his help, Sethe may finally be able to rediscover who she is and regain her lost sense of hope"--Container. 1 videocassette (ca. 172 min.)

MEDIA 2-5710

 

Brazil an inconvenient history 2000

Phil Grabsky and Sean Barrett

Brazil was the largest participant in the slave trade, and the last country to officially abolish slavery. This film charts Brazil's history of slavery. 1 videocassette (47 min.)

MEDIA 2-5461

 

Burn! 2005, 1969

Marlon Brando, Evaristo Maarquez, Renato Salvatori, Gillo Pontecorvo, Alberto Grimaldi, Franco Solinas, Giorgio Arlorio, United Artists Corporation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

Sir William Walker is sent to secure a plantation at a Portuguese colony. While there be befriends Jose and Teddy, and plants the seeds of revolution in their heads. Years later he must go back and stop the revolution that he helped begin. 1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.)

MEDIA                 MEDIA 10-1636                   2-41

 

Carlo Maria Giulini 2003

Carlo Maria Giulini, Guido Cantelli, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Manuel de Falla, Giuseppe Verdi, Gioacchino Rossini, Philharmonia Orchestra (London, England), New Philharmonia Orchestra, Teatro alla Scala, and Orchestra

1 videodisc (85 min.)

MUSIC 290

 

Carved in silence Felicia Lowe

Documentary about Chinese immigration to the United States and the discriminatory U.S. immigration policy toward Asians. Tells the dramatic story of Angel Island where Chinese Americans were detained and vigorously questioned for sometimes up to three years before being allowed to enter the country. 1 videocassette (45 min.)

MEDIA 2-3913

 

Causes of the Civil War c1996

Dana Palermo, Henry Nevison, Charles Hardy , Hollis Payer, InVision Communications, and Schlessinger Video Productions

Industrial North; agricultural South and the cotton belt; plantation slavery; Black resistance to slavery; Nat Turner's Rebellion; ascent of the Republican Party; free Blacks and the abolition movement; Underground Railroad; sectional polarization; the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850; popular sovereignty; the Dred Scott case; Abraham Lincoln; secession of southern states. 1 videocassette (ca. 35 min.)

MEDIA 2-6602

 

Ceddo 2001?

Ousmane Sembaene, Tabara Ndiaye, Moustapha Yade, Ismaeila Diagne, Films Domirev (Firm), and New Yorker Films

An historical epic set loosely in the 19th century, the film examines the confrontation between opposing forces in the face of Moslem expansion in Africa. 1 videocassette (112 min.)

DANA 2198

 

Chronicle 2002, 1992

Jonathan Dent and David Drew

Provides many fascinating and surprising details at excavations of 18th-century slave quarters on Middleburg Plantation near Charleston; at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, whose slave holdings seem so irreconcilable with his expressed views on human freedom; and at Colonial Williamsburg, which until recently suppressed information about the lives of the slaves, who made up over half the town's population. 1 videodisc (50 min.)

MEDIA 10-128

 

Conclusion at Appomattox 1987

Peter Batty

Conclusion at Appomattox ponders the South's legacy of defeat and the War's continuing impact on American life.  In abolishing slavery, did the War eliminate--or exacerbate--racial problems? 1 videocassette (51 min.)

MEDIA 2-499

 

Dark passages 1995

Tanya Hart, Valerie F Whitmore, Wally Ashby, Louis Gossett, and Margaret Avery

Employs a mixture of interviews, slave narratives, and dramatization. Tells the story of the impact of the Atlantic slave trade. 1 videocassette (50 min.)

DANA 1831

 

Death runs riot 1996

Stephen Ives, Ken Burns, Peter Coyote, Jody Abramson, and Michael Kantor

In the 1850s, as more American pioneers poured west, they brought with them the nation's oldest, most divisive issue--slavery--and the rough frontier would supply the sparks that would ignite the Civil War. Indians would be dragged into "the white man's war," while the besieged Mormons would commit the worst massacre of innocent pioneers in American history and a young writer named Sam Clemens would find adventure in Nevada's silver camps. And as the bitter Civil War drew to a close, celebrated Union heros such as George Armstrong Custer and William Tecumseh Sherman would use the tactics which had defeated the South against the Native Americans of the West. 1 videocassette (84 min.)

DANA. MEDIA. MEDIA 1266 2-3222 2-4233

 

Egalite for all Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution 2009

The Haitian Revolution represents the only successful slave revolution in history; it created the world's first Black republic. At the forefront of the rebellion was General Toussaint Louverture, an ex-slave whose genius was admired by allies and enemies alike. 1 videodisc (60 min.)

MEDIA 10-1403

 

Evolution and human equality 1987

Paul Rocklin

Using paleontology, evolutionary biology, genetics, the history of science, and social history, Gould tells the fascinating story of how racial differences have been misunderstood by scientists from pre-Darwinian days to the present to justify oppression, exploitation, and persecution. He describes how new genetic research methods confirm the African origins of homo sapiens. 1 videocassette (42 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 1433 2-530

 

Extra bitter the legacy of the Chocolate Islands 2000

Derek Vertongen, Paul Hargrave, and Paul Carvalho

Filmed on the two formerly Portuguese colonies, São Tomé and Principe (also known as the "Chocolate Islands") and in Portugal, archival film and interviews with historians, writers and the inhabitants create a portrait of a little-known country and its history. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-6022

 

A future for the past 199-?

Peter Swan and James Ward

Under the Omani sultans, Zanzibar became a major trading center for slaves and ivory.  History lives on in its exotic architecture.  Stonetown was a major point where Arab, Indian, Persian, and European influences merged with the indigenous African traditions, giving Zanzibar its unique Swahili character.  The rich architectural heritage is now in danger of being lost.  The government is working with Habitat to update the infrastructure of Stonetown to meet present and future population needs. 1 videocassette (9 min.)

MEDIA 2-5160

 

Generations of resistance 1979

Peter Davis and Motlatsi Motsoasele

Uses archival photographs, newsreel footage, and interviews to chronicle the quest by Black South Africans for economic viability and individual freedom. 1 videocassette (52 min. 21 sec.)

MEDIA  2-6494

 

Genesis and development of [the] African National Congress (A.N.C.) of South Africa 1985

Chola M Mapoma and John Henrik Clarke

Discusses slavery as an institution, and traces the development of the African slave trade. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

DANA 119

 

Gorée the door of no return 1992, 1991

Ann E Johnson, Robin Klein, and Russ Costin

Tells the history of the slave trade: the arrival of the first Europeans in Africa, the origins of slavery in the Americas and the development of Gorée Island as the expanding center of the slave trade. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

DANA 1875

 

Harem c2002

Greg Stebner, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Dilara Batmazol, Hatice Kaleli, History Channel (Television network), Arts and Entertainment Network, New Video Group, and Paladin InVision

During the reign of the Ottoman Empire, hundreds of women were brought as slaves to the imperial harem at Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. Most would spend their lives as the personal property of the Sultan, but some would learn that sex equals power. A feature-length look at a vanished world that long captivated the West. These are the stories of the women who dared to use their skills of seduction to gain power and prestige and the unexpected inner workings of the Ottoman harem. 1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.)

MEDIA 10-540

 

Homo sapiens 1900 1999

Peter Cohen, Jan Holmquist, Devarahi, Arte Factum, Sveriges television, West Glen Communications, Svenska filminstitutet , and First Run/Icarus Films

Examines the history of eugenics, racial hygiene and the ideas of the "new man," as developed in the early 20th century in Germany and the Soviet Union. 1 videocassette (88 min.)

MEDIA 2-7329

 

Jud Seuss c2008

Veit Harlan, Eberhard Wolfgang Meoller, Ludwig Metzger, Ferdinand Marian, Kristina Seoderbaum, Heinrich George, Werner Krauss, Albert Florath, Eugene Kleopfer, Lion Feuchtwanger, Terra Filmkunst (Firm), and International Historic Films Inc

This notorious Nazi propaganda historical costume melodrama is based on the Nazi version of the novel of the same title by Lion Feuchtwanger, which is based on the real historical character of Josef Seuss Oppenheimer who was a Jewish tax advisor to Karl Alexander during the early 1700's and was publicly executed in Stuttgart for manipulation of state funds. 1 videodisc (95 min.)

MEDIA 10-7871

 

The Klan a legacy of hate in America  1989

James Whitmore, Werner Schumann, and Charles Guggenheim

Documentary which explores the history of the KKK, its doctrines, and the reasons for its present-day revival. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

MEDIA 2-2202

 

Last grave at Dimbaza 198-?

Nana Mahomo

Photographed clandestinely and smuggled out of South Africa, the film looks at life under apartheid in white-ruled South Africa focusing on the inequities in housing, education, wages, and health care to which Blacks and the officially designated "Coloured" people are subjected. 1 videocassette (55 min.)

MEDIA 2-1769

 

Lest we forget c2003

Jason DaSilva, Roopa de Choudhury, Suheir Hammad, In Face Films Productions, and Newsreel (Firm)

After the Terrorist attacks of 9/11, some Americans began defining a new "enemy alien"--American Arabs, South Asians, Muslims. This film explores a lesson that history has forgotten; of a country alienating its own citizens and violating their civil liberties once again. 1 videocassette (57 min.)

DANA 3024

 

The middle passage 2003

Djimon Hounsou, Guy Deslauriers, and Walter Mosely

The story of an African slave who was sold into slavery by the King of Dahomey, shackled and transported on a journey shared with some six hundred others. A journey barely half would survive. 1 videocassette (76 min.)

DANA 1839

 

Nazzen moksori 2 Habitual sadness 1997?

Young-Joo Byun

A film about the estimated 200,000 women, mostly Korean, who were forced by the Japanese into sexual slavery during World War II. Now in their sixties and seventies, the surviving women boldly speak of their suffering at the hands of their Japanese oppressors. 1 videocassette (70 min.)

MEDIA 2-6025

 

La negra Angustias  1996

Matilde Landeta, María Elena Márquez, Agustin Isumza, Eduardo Arozamera, Gilberto Gonzalez, and Eduardo S Landeta

Based on the award-winning work by Francisco Rojas González, depicts the racial problems encountered by a black woman who becomes a revolutionary leader of the Mexican campesinos struggling against rich landowners during the Mexican Revolution. 1 videocassette

DANA 627

 

People's gala concert 1992

Semen Davidovich Aranovich and Pavel Finn

Documentary exploring the forbidden subject of anti-Semitism during the final years of Stalin's bloody regime. 1 videocassette (143 min.)

DANA 461

 

Quilombo 1991

Carlos Diegues, Antonio Pompeo, Zezé Motta, Augusto Arraes, Lauro Escorel Filho, Mair Tavares, Toni Tornado, and Vera Fischer

In 17th-century Brazil, groups of runaway black slaves escaped to mountainous jungle strongholds, where they formed self-governing communities known as quilombos. 1 videocassette (114 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-1993 2-5228

 

Racism 1996, 1995

Rebecca Simor, David Frost, and Richard Wells

One of a 26-part series that offers a comprehensive look at the many facets of the twentieth century, including rare archival footage and interviews with participants in major events. This segment looks at race relations during the century. The 1900s witnessed a remarkable period in race relations: on one hand, great strides were made in bringing equal rights to people around the globe; conversely, the century also witnessed the most barbaric crimes ever committed against humanity. 1 videocassette (49 min.)

MEDIA 2-3426

 

La raiz olvidada The forgotten roots 2001

Rafael Rebollar

"Details the history of Mexico's often-overlooked African populations.  Drawing on interviews and archival imagery, the film takes us from the slavery of the colonial era to today's Afro-Mexican communities in Guerrero, Oaxaco, Campeche, Morelos and Veracruz. 1 videocassette (49 min.)

MEDIA 2-5810

 

Rebel hearts Sarah & Angelina Grimke and the anti-slavery movement 1994

Betsy Newman and Terese Svoboda

Discusses the lives of Sarah and Angelina Grimke and their work against slavery and their involvement with what would become the women's rights movement in the United States. 1 videocassette (58 min.)

MEDIA 2-5088

 

Roots in the sand 1998

Jayasri Majumdar Hart, Bill Hart, David Singh Dhillon, Joseph J Anderholt, Bill Ong Hing, and Karen Isaksen Leonard

Through a combined use of extensive archival material and personal interviews, this documentary examines the lives of the Sikh, Moslem and Hindu immigrants of the early 20th century who farmed California's desert regions, particularly the Imperial Valley. There they had to circumvent racism, miscegenation laws, barriers to land ownership and citizenship and even Anglo farmers seeking vengeance. 1 videocassette (57 min.)

MEDIA 2-5446

 

The Shadow of hate a history of intolerance in America 1995

Charles Guggenheim and Julian Bond

A historical overview of religious, ethnic, and racial intolerance in the United States, beginning with colonial times and continuing to the present day, and focusing on such atrocities as the 19th century massacre of Native Americans at Wounded Knee, the World War Two internment of Japanese-Americans, and the Leo Frank lynching in Georgia in 1913. 1 videocassette (40 min.)

MEDIA 2-2638

 

Skin deep, 1960 1999

Marian Marzynski, Prexy Nesbitt, Alfre Woodard, Marian Marzynski, Prexy Nesbitt, and Alfre Woodard

Examines the fight against legal, institutionalized racism in the United States and South Africa.  Chronicles the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the struggle for civil rights in the United States. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA     2-4182a       2-5631

 

The Slave trade 1971

Alasdair Clayre, James Walvin, and John Ferguson

A brief history and analysis of the Transatlantic slave trade that began in the 15th century by the Spanish and was then perpetuated and eventually stopped by the British in the 18th century. 1 videocassette (22 min.)

MEDIA D-106

 

South Africa 1990 the year of change  1990?

François Marais, Michael Purdy, and Chantelle Hurford

In February 1990 the new State President Frederik de Klerk swept South Africa's old politics out and began shaping the new South Africa, a process that dazzled the international community and delighted, and sometimes bewildered those at home.  This film records those stunning developments.  A report of the dramatic events by international camera men and correspondents who covered that news story, a story that's still unfolding today. 1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.)

MEDIA 2-1555

 

Strange fruit 2002

Joel D Katz

A history of the anti-lynching protest song made famous by Billie Holiday. 1 videocassette (58 min.)

MUSIC 462

 

The truth about slavery in history 1998

Richard Arsenault

Explores the history of slavery throughout the world with a concentration on the American slave trade. 1 videocassette (22 min.)

DANA 1846

 

The two Marys 1997

Dearbhla Molloy, Jeillo Edwards, Cathryn Bradshaw, and Penny Woolcock

Dramatized excerpts from the diaries of Mary Prince, born into slavery in Bermuda in 1789, and Lady Maria Nugent, slaveowner in Jamaica, providing first-hand accounts by British women of their experiences of slavery. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

MEDIA 2-5303

 

Un Mur ŕ Jérusalem A Wall in Jerusalem 1989

Frédéric Rossif and Richard Burton

Documentary about the growth of Israel into today's Jewish homeland explores more than seventy years of struggle for religious freedom. Begins with the 1894 Dreyfus Affair, and then looks at Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism; the earliest immigration and settlements; the formation of kibbutzim; the Balfour Declaration; the rise of European anti-Semitism; the British occupation of Palestine; Arab confrontations; the U.N. resolution; the Exodus incident; and the Six-Day War. 1 videocassette (91 min.)

MEDIA 2-2749

 

Understanding race 1999

Lynn Dougherty and Peter Coyote

Examines the history and power of the artificial distinction called "race", viewing it within historical, scientific, and cultural contexts. Topics include the anthropological unity of Homo sapiens; sanctioned discrimination, such as segregation; cultural biases based on racial stereotypes; and the underlying humanity that inextricably links us all. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA  MEDIA 1880  2-5944

 

An unlikely friendship c2002

Diane Bloom, Florence Gray Soltys, Lewis Lipsitz, Ann Atwater, C. P Ellis, and In-Focus (Firm)

In July 1971, as the Southern city of Durham, N.C., struggled to cope with the racial upheaval of desegregation, community leaders gathered to discuss civic and school conditions.  The 10-day meeting was co-chaired by Ann Atwater, an activist representing the Black community, and C.P. Ellis, who was one of the 10 Exalted Grand Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).  By the end of the congress, Ellis had publicly destroyed his KKK membership card, and he and Atwater -- who had disliked him on sight -- had forged a friendship that endures to this day. 1 videodisc (45 min.)

MEDIA 10-1883

Violence an American tradition 1996, 1995

Julian Bond, Edward Asner, Robby Benson, Jill Clayburgh, Peter W Kunhardt, and Philip B Kunhardt

"From the punishment of defenseless Native Americans by Christopher Columbus 500 years ago, to the domestic and racially motivated assaults that run rampant today. American history is permeated by acts of violence. Using archival photos and footage, as well as the words of both historial figures and current experts in sociology, medicine and history, this program explores the recurring patterns of violence that have emerged in our society as as result of insurrection, anger, prejudice, and ignorance. "--Container. 1 videocassette (55 min.)

MEDIA 2-3433

 

Wien retour Return to Vienna 1999?

W. D Heinstrasse, Ruth Beckermann, and Josef Aicholzer

"In 1924, fourteen year old Franz Weintraub and his parents moved from Magdeburg,  Germany to Vienna, Austria. Joining some 60,000 other Jews who had migrated from eastern  areas of the defeated Hapsburg Empire, Weintraub's family settled in the Viennese Jewish  community of Leopoldstadt, the so-called 'Matzo Island.' In this illuminating documentary,  Weintraub recalls his experiences as a young Jew in inter-war Austria from 1924 to 1934. A  journalist and gifted storyteller, Weintraub reconstructs everyday life in Jewish Leopoldstadt  and in a Social Democratic milieu. Recalling in vivid detail his encounters with anti-semitism,  his involvement with the Labor movement and his membership in the Communist Party,  Weintraub's oral history provides keen insight into a community and era soon transformed by  World War II"--Distributor's website. 1 videocassette (95 min.)

MEDIA 2-3201

 

Without due process Japanese Americans and World War II 1992

Gerald Griffith, Misha Griffith, Roger Daniels, Gary Y Okihiro, Joseph Robert Conlin, J. Scott Carter, Ray Nakamoto, Steve Thomas, and Marni Webb

Describes the violation during World War II of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which insists on due process of law.  Tells of the race prejudice, war hysteria, and failure of political leadership which resulted in the evacuation of Japanese Americans, and their placement in internship camps in California, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, and Arkansas. "The forced evacuation and incarceration of over 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II is a stark example of what can and did happen in this nation when government leaders chose to disregard the rights guaranteed to all Americans by the Constitution.". 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 840

 

Witness to apartheid 1986

Sharon Sopher, Kevin Harris, and Peter Kinroy

Testimonies from subjects as diverse as Bishop Desmond Tutu, and obscure white business executive, and a young Black social worker are among the voices of anguish heard protesting the injustice of apartheid in South Africa. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA D-168