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Summary: Mazie is ready to celebrate liberty and freedom on Juneteenth, a great day in American history, the day her ancestors were no longer slaves.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV JUN

Summary: Follows the journey of four slaves on the Underground Railroad from the American South to their freedom in Canada. Features: 3 bonus movies: Honeydripper, Stigma, and Go tell it on the mountain.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Ellis, Aunjanue

Summary: Dreaming of escaping and returning to her African home, slave Aminata is thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War, when she helps create a list of black people who have been honored for their service to the king.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2015

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BOO

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOO

Summary: Celebrate African American history with this historic collection of stories. Collection includes: Rosa ; Henry's freedom box ; Lincoln and Douglass ; and, Ellington was not a street. Bonus interview with Nikki Giovanni. Bonus interview with Ellen Levine.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV STO

Summary: Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ANT

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ANT

Summary: This story follows the life of Eliza and her protector Uncle Tom, who are caught in the brutality of slavery in the Southern States during the nineteenth century.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROO

Summary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROO

Summary: A man and his estranged nephew become the guardians of five abused and abandoned Chinese girls. Their rivals intend to kidnap the girls while the two are delivering a herd of horses.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Broken 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BRO

Summary: Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ROO

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROO

Summary: Underground tells the story of American heroes and their harrowing journey from slavery to freedom, with the legendary Harriot Tubman blazing the trail.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD UND

Summary: Underground tells the story of American heroes and their harrowing journey from slavery to freedom, with the legendary Harriot Tubman blazing the trail.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UND

Summary: "While traveling across [Alabama in the 1930s], Grace discovers the isolated plantation of Manderlay, a place where no one knows that slavery has been long abolished. With a good heart and pure intentions, Grace tries to emancipate the slaves and open the residents' eyes to the truth, with shocking results"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Ejiofor, Chiwetel

Summary: Tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was abducted in Washington, D.C., and forced to spend the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 12 Y

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWE

Copies Available at Peninsula

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

Summary: Set during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica, following the trials, tribulations and survival of July and her odious mistress Caroline on a sugar plantation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LON

Summary: A popular California high school girl is selected by a mysterious old man to kill the vampires that are terrorizing Los Angeles. Although it could put a serious crimp in her shopping, Buffy takes on the ghouls with the help of a handsome drifter, and incurs the wrath of the chief vampire!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BUF

Summary: After her death at the hands of The Master and a summer vacation spent with her father, Buffy returns to Sunnydale in a strangely withdrawn and snappy mood. Determined to break off her relationship with Angel, she seems a little too eager to renew her Slayer training. She needs to get Angel out of her blood is proving to be harder than she thought. As the two draw even closer together, their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BUF

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BUF

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Buffy

Summary: After an unsettling encounter with Dracula, Buffy asks Giles to be her Watcher again. Luckily he agrees, for Buffy is about to face problems far more threatening than the undead.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BUF

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BUF

Summary: "Centers on a revolutionary machine that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After it is stolen, a fearless detective and a brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a 'dream terrorist'"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PAP

Summary: Collection of all 22 third season episodes. The season begins with Buffy in LA hiding from her friends, family and destiny, but she is forced to face what she is. Buffy ten returns to Sunnydale for her senior year to a less-than-welcoming reception. A new Slayer, Faith, comes to Sunnydale, then Angel returns from Hell. Faith's new Watcher comes to town, Spike also returns, but without Drusilla....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BUF

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BUF

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Buffy

Summary: Buffy continues her quest to slay the vampires in Sunnydale. Includes all 22 episodes from season 7.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BUF

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BUF

Summary: Buffy is resurrected form the dead by Willow, who thought Buffy was in a hell dimension. What the Scoobies don't know is that Buffy believed that she actually was in heaven. After being ripped from a peaceful existence, she now considers herself to be in a hell on earth. The depressed slayer secretly turns to someone who knows about death, the Buffy-obsessed Spike, and the two begin a twisted...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BUF

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BUF

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