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1) Black Adam
Language
English
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Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods - and imprisoned just as quickly - Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
Publisher
Warner Premiere
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Chosen the world's protector against the Seven Deadly Enemies of Man (pride, envy, greed, hatred, selfishness, laziness, and injustice) young Billy Batson accepts his destiny. Battling alongside Superman against nefarious Black Adam, Billy soon discovers the challenge superheroes ultimately face; is it revenge or justice? Superman, Green Arrow and Black Canary follow an internal moral code to guide their actions.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Meet the newest...and the youngest...and the nicest hero in town: Shazam! By shouting one word, 10-year-old Billy Batson transforms into an adult super hero. It doesn't take long for Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and the rest of the Justice League to take notice and invite the earnest do-gooder to join the team. But to become a member, he must reveal his true identity. While fighting off the evil Mister Mind and Black Adam, Billy learns that he...
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
There's a new hero in town. This earnest do-gooder wants to join the Justice League, but in order to do so, he has to reveal his identity as ten-year-old Billy Batson! Billy learns that joining a team is all about trust while fighting off the evil Mr. Mind and Black Adam in Lego Justice League Shazam! Monster Society of Evil.
Language
English
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A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline in this taut and timely thriller that is part high-stakes heist, part radical exploration of the climate crisis. Inspired by ideas put forth in the Andreas Malm's nonfiction book by the same name, published by Verso Books.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Nine years after giving up his superhero alter-ego, Jefferson Pierce is just your average, everyday high school principal. But the electricity-controlling crimefighter must reluctantly come out of retirement to protect his community from a dangerous gang known as the 100.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Jefferson Pierce, respected educator and father of two, is also Black Lightning, superpowered protector of Freeland. And he doesn₂t fight alone. He is joined by his superpowered daughters, Anissa, aka Thunder, and Jennifer, aka Lightning, as well as his ex-wife, metahuman expert Lynn. Together, the Pierce family combats the ills eroding their city, including a menacing gang that calls itself The 100 and infamous gangster Tobias Whale.
12) Dance Me Outside
Publisher
Unobstructed View
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Director Bruce McDonald explores living in a northern Ontario native reservation. This Canadian drama based on a book by W.P. Kinsella, examines the tension between Native Canadians and Anglos in Canada from a Native perspective. Silas Crow, who lives on a Northern Ontario reserve, wants to take a mechanic's course in Toronto with his friend Frank Fencepost. But before he can enroll, the teen must write a short narrative describing his home. The film...
13) The jerk
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Martin's screen debut, as the adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, whose crazy inventions take him from rags to riches to rags.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Features the life, culture, and accomplishments of some of the most influential African Americans in history from the United States. From the oppression and hardship during the time of the Civil War to civil rights movements that paved the way to this country's first African-American president. A definitive retrospective of Black history in America.
Publisher
Checkerboard Film Foundation
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The film features artist Frank Stella as he walks us through his 2012 exhibition “Black Aluminum Copper Paintings” at L&M Arts. The film also features commentary on Frank’s life and career from Adam Weinberg (Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY) and Ann Temkin (Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, NY).
16) Monsters and men
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The aftermath of a black man being killing by a police officer. The story is told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act. A high school baseball phenomenon and an African-American police officer were inspired to take a stand.
18) 12 years a slave
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
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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.
19) Doubt
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
When a young nun suspects inappropriate behavior between a priest and the school's only black student, a Catholic school principal sets out to prove the clergyman's guilt.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the secret organization headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, their journey leads the agents to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the US called Statesman, dating back to the day they were both founded. In a new adventure that tests their agents' strength and wits to the limit, these two elite secret organizations band together to defeat a ruthless common enemy, in order to save the world, something that's becoming...