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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1964, the civil rights community is gearing up for "Mississippi Freedom Summer," during which hundreds, if not thousands, of mostly white student activists from the North will link up with mostly black freedom workers to accomplish what the Mississippi power structure fears the most: registering black people to vote. For the segregationists, Freedom Summer is nothing less than a declaration of war. The state responds by swearing in...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over 10 memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in one of the nation's most segregated states -- even in the face of intimidation, physical violence, and death.
4) The help
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community
5) Show boat
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A musical extravaganza which illustrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe.
6) The hollow
Publisher
Uncork'd Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When a U.S. congressman's daughter is brutally murdered in a small Mississippi town, a team of FBI agents descends to investigate. They find a corrupt sheriff's department whose chief deputy runs drugs for 'Big' John Dawson, a shadowy, influential figure who seems to be pulling the town's strings from his mansion on the outskirts of town. This high-pressure murder investigation could destroy the lives of all those involved.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome - as both a football player and student. Mike works hard and, with...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A murder trial brings a small Mississippi town's racial tension to the flashpoint. Amid a frenzy of activist marches, Klan terror, media clamor and brutal riots, an unseasoned but idealistic young attorney mounts a stirring courtroom battle for justice.
10) Don't kill it
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An ancient demon terrorizes a tiny Mississippi town.
11) As I lay dying
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's mission to honor her desire to be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson, Mississippi.
12) Mud
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Two boys, Ellis and his best friend Neckbone, find a mysterious man named Mud hiding out on a deserted island in the Mississippi. Mud tells the boys fantastic stories about his life, including how he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper. The boys agree to help him, but it isn't long until their small town is besieged by bounty hunters out...
13) The Reivers
Publisher
Paramount Pictures/ CBS DVD
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Based on William Faulkner's warm, humorous, poignant story about a the advent of the automobile, a horse race and a boy's loss of innocence during an great adventure in the early 1900's South
Series
Publisher
Escapi
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"Traveler Ian Wright goes trekking in the Great Smokey Mountains, before driving south to Atlanta, Georgia. He then catches the bus to Tuskegee, Alabama and the idyllic beaches of the Gulf shores. He travels down Highway 61 through Vicksburg and Clarksdale, before ending his journey in Memphis, Tennesee"--Container
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Concerns the disintegration of a once-proud Southern family, the Compsons. The film focuses on the rebellious teenage Quentin (Joanne Woodward), squirming under the repressive thumb of her stern and cynical step-uncle Jason (Yul Brynner). Their power struggle is knocked off-kilter by the unexpected return of the wayward mother (Margaret Leighton) who abandoned Quentin at birth.
18) Freedom song
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Stirring account of the civil rights struggle in the early 1960s, based on first-hand recollections of veteran activists, burning with realism, commitment, and the urgency of the lives in crisis
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