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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A documentary on the Mexican-American civil rights movement. The film tells the story of one key injustice, the refusal, by a small-town funeral home in Texas after World War II, to care for a dead soldier's body 'because the whites wouldn't like it,' and shows how the incident sparked outrage nationwide and contributed to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 860 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After years of hard work in the world of high fashion, Betty is finally getting her just desserts. Watch as she blossoms, both professionally and personally, yet never loses the unique spirit that makes her so special, and find out what becomes of your favorites at MODE. Includes all 20 final-season episodes, plus never-before-seen bonus features.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 1032 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Betty Suarez is smart, sweet and hard working. The only problem is that she's not thin and beautiful like all her coworkers at Mode, the high-fashion magazine where she works. The only reason the publisher hired her to be his son's secretary is that he figured Betty was someone who Daniel would never sleep with. Along the way, Betty's hard work and determination earns Daniel's respect. She helps him find his way through the shark infested waters of...
5) América
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
America as seen through the eyes of a Puerto Rican maid. She is America Gonzalez, brought over by a Westchester, New York, couple who met her in a hotel in Puerto Rico where she was a cleaner.
6) Lone star
Series
Criterion collection volume 1202
Language
English
Formats
Description
A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neo-western mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds, son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles's...
7) 500 nations
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (372 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
500 Nations is an eight-part documentary that looks back at life in North America before the arrival of the Europeans, then follows the epic struggles of Indian Nations as the continent is reshaped by contact.