Summary: A vibrant world where friends and strangers dream, fear, cry, love, and laugh out loud in an attempt to find their true selves. Adapted by writer/director Tyler Perry from Ntozake Shange's acclaimed choreopoem, this gripping film paints an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a woman of color in the modern world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOR

Murphy, Eddie

Summary: When leaves start falling from a magical tree in his yard, a fast-talking literary agent discovers that he has to let his actions speak louder than his words.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Th

Summary: Ray Charles went blind at the age of seven. Inspired by his mother who insisted he make his own way, he found his calling at the keyboard.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAY RATED PG-13

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAY

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Summary: Django, a former slave turned hired gun, heads back to the plantation to free his wife, Broomhilda, from the tyrannical plantation owner Calvin Candie, with the help of a German bounty hunter, Dr. King Shultz.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DJA RATED R

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Dj

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Summary: Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LAS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Last

Summary: August 1944. Follows four black soldiers of the all-black 92nd Infantry Division who get trapped near the small Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema on the Gothic Line during the Italian Campaign of World War II. One of the men will risks his life to save an Italian boy who lives in the city where the Waffen-SS have massacred most of the citizens of the town in retaliation for Italian...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIR