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1 videodisc (2 hr., 13 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 chapter index card
Language
English
Description
"Robert Redford stars in this action drama as General Irwin, a respected three-star tactician whose career ends in disgrace when he's court martialed and sent to The Castle, a maximum security military prison. Irwin quickly butts heads with the facility's autocratic warden, Colonel Winter (James Gandolfini), who runs his command with an iron fist, even killing prisoners when he deems it necessary. Irwin rallies his fellow convicts into a rag-tag army...
2) Kings
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Millie Dunbar is a foster parent who looks after her many children in Los Angeles in 1992. After the verdict from the Rodney King Incident is revealed, the city quickly begins to descend into all-out chaos between its denizens and the police. Now Millie must protect her children from the ensuing anarchy and erupting violence all while navigating the precarious waters of police violence and finding justice for her family.
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1 videodisc (approximately 72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Film of a live concert at The Berkeley Community Center on Memorial Day, 1970; concert footage is intercut with scenes from riots in Berkeley earlier in the month in the wake of the Kent State shootings.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The 1960s was defined by a common effort to fight against injustice. Mike Gray, a Chicago filmmaker, used his camera to document the politics of the streets from the riots in the social upheaval, to the rising of two prolific groups fighting prejudice.
Series
Film Movement volume 9, film 12
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116, 15 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Seventeen-year-old Erling is a rumored murderer and therefore sent to the Bastoy Boys Home correctional facility. Once there he clashes with the island facility's governor who believes manual labor, rigid discipline, and harsh punishment is the only way to turn these boys around. Refusing to accept the constant abuse, Erling leads the boys in a violent uprising that will bring them head to head with no less than the Norwegian Army.
6) Medium cool
Series
Criterion collection volume 658
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([18] pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
Language
English
Description
The story of the working world and romantic life of a television cameraman is a visceral, lasting cinematic snapshot of the era, climaxing with an extended sequence shot right in the middle of the riots surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. An inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera, Medium Cool is as prescient a political film as Hollywood has ever produced.
7) Zoot suit
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lawyers seek justice for a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to prison. Based on the Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940's Los Angeles.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Explores the dramatic event that launched a worldwide rights movement. When police raided a Mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969, gay men and women did something they had not done before: they fought back. As the streets of New York erupted into violent protests and street demonstrations, the collective anger announced that the gay rights movement had arrived.
9) Detroit
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Amidst the chaos of the Detroit Rebellion, with the city under curfew and as the Michigan National Guard patrolled the streets, three young African American men were murdered at the Algiers Motel.
10) Attica
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Survivors, observers and expert government officials recount the 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility, when a violent five-day standoff between mostly Black and Latino inmates and law enforcement took place.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : illustrations ; 14 cm).
Language
English
Description
Frank Custer is an African-American migrant worker who struggles to help build an interracial union in the Chicago Stockyards. When management efforts to divide the workforce put strain on the racial tensions, the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 is the result.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1977, New York was a city in crisis. Paralyzed by a citywide blackout, political strife and the Son of Sam killing spree, the Big Apple was burning. Rising out of this troubled urban landscape to bring hope and inspiration came one of baseball's most storied franchises, The New York Yankees. Traces the amazing-but-true story of how the New York Yankees single-handedly helped raise the spirits of a city in a time of darkness and uncertainty....
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Since August, 2017, Frontline and ProPublica have been investigating the resurgence of violent white supremacists in America. In Documenting Hate: Charlottesville, correspondent A.C. Thompson methodically tracks down some of those at the center of the infamous and deadly rally in Charlottesville, Virginia -- revealing that one participant in the violence was an active-duty Marine, and another worked for a major defense contractor and held a U.S....
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Tells the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States - a 1966 riot in San Francisco's impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, three years before the famous gay riot at New York's Stonewall Inn" -- Container.
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