Danny Glover
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"It's Union Time, people!" - the rallying cry of workers at the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina. Since its opening in 1993, employees of the plant have endured various abuses such as intimidation tactics, low pay, and dangerous working conditions which resulted in bodily injury and, on one occasion, death. Often treated as expendable, the workers came together and engaged in a 16-year-long struggle for the right...
2) The Garden
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Captures the explosive and wrenching turn of events when greedy developers, inept politicians, and self-serving 'community' leaders run roughshod over the lives of working-class families fighting to save the 14-acre urban farm that has become their very source of survival. Exposes the fault line in American society and raises crucial and challenging questions about liberty, equality, and justice for the poorest and most vulnerable among us.
3) Honeydripper
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From Oscar® nominated director John Sayles comes an electrifying and vivid rock 'n' roll fable. When Tyrone, owner of the Honeydripper lounge, is faced with having to shut down his juke joint, his hopes rest on one man-the famous Guitar Sam. It's a make or break weekend for the Honeydripper, this better be some Saturday night! With exquisite performances by Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Stacy Keach, Mary Steenburgen and Sean Patrick Thomas; and...
4) Sins
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David begins experiencing cloudy memories of a long-lost life amidst the violent Cortello family in Sicily...a family he ultimately betrayed. And the wages of sin are deadly.
5) Supremacy
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Tully (Joe Anderson, A SINGLE SHOT, HERCULES) just got paroled. But his first night out could be his last. He just killed a cop. And no one's gonna listen to an ex-con with the Aryan Nation. His leader (Anson Mount) just cut him loose, and as the police close in, Tully and his girlfriend (Dawn Olivieri) add home invasion and hostages to the body count. But no one counted on Mr. Walker (Danny Glover), an ex-con himself, to fight back – using his...
6) Freedom Song
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Danny Glover and writer/director Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams) reveal the impact of the 1960s civil rights movement on a small Southern town in the compelling drama Freedom Song.In the fictional town of Quinlan, Mississippi, the arrival of a civil rights group leader inspires a young African-American teenager, Owen Walker (Vicellous Reon Shannon), to join the crusade to desegregate his hometown. Leading sit-ins and helping black people register...
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New Environmentalists volume 1
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Fresh water is one of Earth's sacred resources. Lake Turkana's freshwater resources are vital to countless people who rely on it for sustenance. When a dam threatened to disturb the Lake's ecosystem, some took action to protect their home.
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A story that tears at the heart of America, this critically acclaimed documentary from the director of Bonhoeffer explores Thomas Jefferson and his personal and public dilemma about race and slavery. For centuries people have asked how it was possible that the man who wrote the creed for America, declaring that "all men are created equal and entitled to the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," could also live his life as a slaveholder....
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"THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution. Gaining access to many of the leaders of the Black Power Movement Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale, Angela Davis and Eldridge Cleaver among them the filmmakers captured them in intimate moments and remarkably unguarded interviews. Thirty years later, this lush collection was found...
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"In 1915, African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith's notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. Birth of a Movement features commentary from Spike Lee, Reginald Hudlin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and DJ Spooky (who created...
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""Black Cowboys of Rodeo" is a collection of one hundred years' worth of cowboy stories - set against the backdrop of reconstruction, Jim Crow, segregation, the civil rights movement, and eventually the integration of a racially divided country - told in firsthand accounts from the cowboys themselves"--
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The story of Belvie Rooks and Dedan Gills, their journey and their transformation, is "as old as eternity and new as now." Dedan and Belvie were already activists, mentors, and voices for justice, but in their union, they became an even greater force for compassion and love. Dedan (1945-2015) was a lifelong social justice and human rights activist who viewed himself as a "soulutionary." His favorite mantra-"Music is my medicine! Kindness is my song!"-was...
14) Lynch: A History
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Lynch: A History is a kaleidoscopic look at Marshawn Lynch's use of silence as a form of protest. Culling 700 clips and placing them in radical juxtaposition, the film is a powerful parable about American sports media and racial oppression.
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A collection of performances by rock icons performing their favorite songs with and by their self-proclaimed hero Chuck Berry. You'll see full performances from rock legends honoring the man they all agree started it all. The program is a historic record of the continuing impact of the father of Rock 'N Roll. Featuring the Beatles, Stones, Springsteen, Petty, Hendrix, Ronstadt and more.
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90% of the media in the USA are controlled by five big for-profit-conglomerats, creating a media monopoly that manipulates our political, economical, and social world. Shadows of Liberty reveals the extraordinary truth behind the news media: censorship, cover-ups and corporate control. Filmmaker Jean-Philippe Tremblay takes an intrepid journey through the darker corridors of the American media landscape, where global conglomerates call the shots....
18) The Exonerated
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Award-winning actors retell the true stories of six exonerated survivors of death row in the survivors' own words. Adapted for the screen from the highly acclaimed stage play.
20) Caffeinated
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Learn the story behind your morning Joe. Caffeinated gives the coffee consumer unprecedented access to the farmers responsible for growing that perfect bean, and the roasters and baristas responsible for brewing that perfect cup