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Vanessa Williams
1) Mid-century
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A husband and wife's weekend in a mid-century modern vacation rental turns deadly when the husband discovers the owner is a psychopath with a backyard of buried secrets and designs on his wife.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (appoximately 120 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Author Zora Neale Hurston's anthropological work challenges assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had been defined by the field in the 19th century. She gained renown in the Harlem literary circles, but Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie, and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for freedom from the confines of the house and begs her son to take her on a visit to her hometown of Bountiful. When he refuses, Mrs. Watts is undeterred and makes an escape to the local bus station, where she befriends Thelma, a young woman traveling home.
5) Candyman
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook handed killer. In present day, an artist begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
6) The odyssey
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (203 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Aided by the goddess Athena, warrior-king Odysseus braves the terrors and temptations of a fantastic array of creatures as his return from the Trojan War becomes a decade-long quest to reach his homeland and his faithful wife, Penelope.
7) Candyman
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook handed killer. In present day, an artist begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
9) Soul food
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Director's ed., widescreen version
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Sunday dinner at Mother Joe's is a mouth-watering, 40-year tradition. As seen through the eyes of her grandson Ahmad, love and laughs are always on the menu, despite the usual rivalries simmering between his mom Maxine and her sisters Teri and Bird. But when serious bickering starts to tear the family apart, the good times suddenly stop. Now it's up to Ahmad to get everyone back together and teach them the true meaning of soul food
10) Candyman
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Helen Lyle hears about a slave spirit with a hook hand said to haunt a notorious housing project, she braves the gang-ridden area to visit the site. Helen arrogantly assumes Candyman can't really exist, until he appears, igniting a string of terrifying, grisly slayings. The police refuse to believe Helen's story and charge her with the crimes. Now the only one who can set her free is Candyman.
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (ca. 1032 min.) : sd., col. ; 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...
12) The odyssey
Publisher
Magic Picture
Pub. Date
[2011].
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 176 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Homer's tale recounting the journey of Odysseus, king of Ithaca and mastermind of the Greek victory in the Trojan War.
Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"'John Oldman, ' the immortal 14,000 year-old 'Man from Earth, ' is now comfortably hiding in plain sight as a college professor in Northern California, but when four students discover his deepest secret, his existence comes crashing down, putting his life in grave danger and potentially shaking mankind to its very soul"--Container.
14) Candyman
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A search for dissertation material leads a graduate student to an old tale about a slave spirit said to haunt a notorious housing project. Helen Lyle is a student who decides to write a thesis about local legends and myths. She visits a part of the town, where she learns about the legend of the Candyman, a one-armed man who appears when you say his name five times, in front of a mirror. Of course, Helen doesn't believe all this stuff, but the people...
