Cicely Tyson
Author
Language
English
Description
The Academy, Tony, and Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer tells her stunning story, looking back at her life and six-decade career.
Tyson has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. She has been the church girl who once rarely spoke a word; the teenager who sought solace in the verses of the old hymn for which this book is named. A daughter and mother, a sister, and a friend, she is also an observer of human nature and the...
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The River Niger: A house-painter/poet struggles to support his cancer-plagued wife. Death of a prophet: Combines documentary footage with reenactments to weave a fascinating work. A suspense thriller which follows the events in the final 24 hours of the life of religious and political leader Malcolm X.
4) Idlewild
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the Prohibition-era American South, speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend not only with gangsters who have their eyes on the club, but also his piano player and partner Percival. Percival, meanwhile, must choose between his love for Angel and his obligations to his father.
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A frustrated teacher in a southern town, whose education is being underutilized, finds his own purpose in helping bring meaning to the last days of a young man due to be executed. In teaching one person to die with dignity, he redeems himself.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Coal miner's daughter: The story of country singer Loretta Lynn.
The best little whorehouse in Texas: The town sheriff and regular patron attempts to save the legendary Chicken Ranch from a television preacher.
Smokey and the bandit: A trucker takes on a runaway bride and a trailer full of beer with a sheriff in hot pursuit.
Fried green tomatoes: An unhappy housewife befriends an elderly woman in a nursing home and hears her remarkable story.
9) The help
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
Series
Video collection movies and entertainment volume 9507V
Publisher
Tomorrow Entertainment
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Sterling Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A simple Southern girl is thrown into adulthood when she marries a Civil War veteran haunted by nightmares of the war. Years later she looks back on the events of a life filled with drama, pain, joy, hardship and triumph.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie, and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for freedom from the confines of the house and begs her son to take her on a visit to her hometown of Bountiful. When he refuses, Mrs. Watts is undeterred and makes an escape to the local bus station, where she befriends Thelma, a young woman traveling home.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of Southern matriarch Madea. She has just been court ordered to be in charge of Nikki, a rebellious runaway, her nieces, Lisa and Vanessa, are suffering relationship trouble, and through it all, she has to organize her family reunion.
Language
English
Description
Miss Jane Pittman is celebrating her 110th birthday. As the civil rights movement heats up, Miss Jane, a former slave, recounts her memories of the black experience from picking potatoes on a southern plantation to fetching water for soldiers in the Civil War to her views on the current and turbulent equal rights movement.
16) The help
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Gathered together in the Bahamas for their annual one-week reunion, four close couples eagerly reconnect, sharing news about their lives and relationships. But their intimate week in paradise is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of Sheila's ex-husband, Mike, who hopes to break up her new marriage with Troy and win her back. With their relationships hanging in the balance when they return home, each couple must choose between blame and forgiveness....
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2003-©2004
Language
English
Description
Deadly drifter: A self-styled urban guerrilla is sent on clandestine assignments across the U.S. by a mysterious employer. Blood tide: An archaeologist working in Greece awakens a sea creature whose killing can only be stopped by sacrificing a virgin. A house painter/poet struggles to provide emotional and financial support for his cancer-stricken wife. Death of a prophet: Chronicles the final twenty-four hours of the life of Malcolm X.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and legacy of African American poet, memoirist, and civil rights worker Maya Angelou, from her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana to the recitation of her inaugural poem for President Bill Clinton. Includes Angelou's own words woven together with archival photographs and videos as well as interviews with Angelou's friends and family.