Forest Whitaker
Author
Language
English
Description
Hip clothing designer, Amer Atrash, is perpetually on the brink of success. Now, with time running out, he is undergoing a crisis in his business and in his marriage. Soul searching, he attributes his misfortune to bad karma from a wrongdoing committed fifteen years ago and sets out to right this wrong, experiencing a spiritual awakening in the process.
Author
Language
English
Description
Marcus is a passive black family man in Bolalusa, Lousiana, who refuses to get involved in the civil rights movement. All that changes when he is arrested for trying to defend his daughter during a protest, triggering a desire to finally take a stand-aggressively and armed.
5) The butler
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A White House butler serves eight American presidents over three decades. The film follows changes in American society during this time, from the civil rights movement to past the Vietnam War, and how those changes affected this man's life and family.
9) Food Chains
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Farmworkers, the foundation of our fresh food industry, are routinely abused and robbed of wages. FOOD CHAINS reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of large buyers of produce like fast food and supermarkets.
10) Two Men in Town
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Language
English
Description
William Garnett (Forest Whitaker) is an ex-con starting life over as a recently converted Muslim. With the help of his determined parole officer (Brenda Blethyn), he gets a job, meets an interesting woman, and keeps his head down. But the town sheriff, Bill Agati (Harvey Keitel), won't leave him alone since Garnett was responsible for killing his deputy. As Agati puts pressure on him, and his old partners in crime hassle him, Garnett slowly starts...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team ,including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
12) Zulu
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Based on the novel by Caryl Ferey. Set against the backdrop of post-apartheid South Africa, two South African police officers on opposing sides of the apartheid divide work together to fight crime.
13) Bank Robber
Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
After robbing a bank, Billy (Patrick Dempsey) hides out from the police in a seedy hotel where he is forced to bribe various tenants for protection and their silence. Soon the tenants begin to up the price for their trouble.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Once Jennie had everything. She had two bowls to eat from, two pillows, and for cold weather, a red wool sweater. She even had a master who loved her. But Jennie didn't care. In the middle of the night she packed everything she had in a black leather bag with gold buckles and looked out of her favorite window for the last time... Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life follows Jennie's surreal, suspenseful and unexpectedly moving journey...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Max, sent to bed without his dinner, runs away, finds a boat, and sails off--still wearing his wolf suit--to a faraway land inhabited by gigantic, fuzzy monsters that welcome Max as their king, but he finds being a ruler more difficult than it looks and must decide whether to stay or return home.
17) The fourth angel
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
English
Description
When terrorists kill his family in cold blood, a highly respected journalist is driven to the edge of murderous obsession in his quest for justice and revenge.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Imported by the Army for an early morning radio show in Vietnam, disc jockey Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams) blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home. The G.I.'s love him, but the brass is up in arms.
Publisher
Screen Media Flims
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"In this expos�e, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the United States"--Film web site.
20) Respect
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The life story of legendary R&B singer Aretha Franklin.