Do you like lists and short descriptive paragraphs about culture, history and biography? Try this catalog of films on African American and Caribbean culture. It might fit. Click HERE It is a PDF file.
Sample entries:
Adam Clayton Powell
53 min Sr.High/College
A candid chronicle of the influence
and personality of this powerful politician
and Civil Rights leader. Archival footage,
photographs and onscreen interviews tell
the story of Powell’s achievements–from
smashing racial barriers in 1930’s Harlem
to spearheading Congressional social
legislation in the 1960’s. While a
flamboyant lifestyle led to political ruin,
Powell’s story provides a perspective on
America as it entered the Civil Rights era.
Produced by Richard Kilberg. (1989
DCINEMA)
V00595,VH VHS Video
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Black Is...Black Ain’t
86 min Sr.High/College
Producer Marlon Riggs’ last film
explores African American identity by
weaving together the testimony of those
whose complexion, class, gender, speech
or sexuality has made them feel "too
black" or "not black enough." Riggs
locates the essence of "blackness" in
African Americans’ courage from slavery
down to the present to improvise a
positive meaning in their lives in the face
of discrimination and suffering. Riggs
expresses his reaction to dealing with
AIDS from which he died before final
completion of the film.
Produced by
Marlon Riggs and Signifyin’ Works.
(1995CNEWS)
AV0433,VH VHS Video
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Bernice Johnson Reagon: The
Singing Warrior
40 min College
An interview with Bernice Johnson
Reagon, SNCC freedom singer and
founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, at
the Iliff School of Theology, Denver,
Colorado on October 27, 1997. Contents
include: On childhood religion – On
activism – On singing – Songforms and
democracy – On being an elder –
Understanding the movement.
(2000
ILIFF)
V09962,VH VHS Video
The listings are from the video library of the University of Colorado at Boulder
Acrobat Reader is worth your time for the free download to access gems like these.
The video library list of mediagraphies links is topical. The interesting PDF files can be found HERE
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