Macro Media
1) Fences
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
2) Fences
Language
English
Formats
Description
A black garbage collector named Troy Maxson in 1950s Pittsburgh is bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues, Maxson is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
4) Mudbound
Series
Criterion collection volume 1205
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families -- one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers -- are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with co-writer...
5) The land
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of four teenage boys who devote their summer to escaping the streets of Cleveland, Ohio to pursue a dream life of professional skateboarding. But when they get caught in the web of the local Queen-pin, their motley brotherhood is tested, threatening to make this summer their last.
6) Nine days
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Will spends his days in a remote outpost watching the live Point of View (POV) on TV's of people going about their lives, until one subject perishes, leaving a vacancy for a new life on earth. Soon, several candidates, unborn souls, arrive at Will's to undergo tests determining their fitness, facing oblivion when they are deemed unsuitable. But Will soon faces his own existential challenge in the form of free-spirited Emma, a candidate who is not...
7) Just mercy
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this powerful, thought-provoking true story, recent Harvard graduate Bryan Stevenson passes up lucrative jobs to defend those wrongly condemned in Alabama. Supported by local advocate Eva Ansley, he quickly picks up the incendiary case of Walter McMillian, a death-row inmate convicted of a nororious murder. Facing a legal and political labyrinth and unabashed racism, Bryan fights for Walter and others like him in a system stacked against them."...
9) Blue bayou
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of a Korean adoptee, raised in the Lousiana bayou and living with his wife and stepdaughter, who must confront his past when he discovers that he could be deported.
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