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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
aThe year is 1861. As President Lincoln calls for 75,000 men to join the Union army, the nation teeters on the brink of The Civil War. Meanwhile, a more covert battle waged by the Underground Railroad has been raging for decades. Station master William Hanby helps runaway slaves reach freedom. The risk doubles when a bounty hunter shows up determined to make money by capturing escapees and returning them to their masters.
5) Future War
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
From the seventh season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mike and his robot friends add their comments to the film Future War. In the film itself, a race of cyborgs from the future has come to the present to track down an escaped human slave. Using dinosaurs to track him down, the cyborgs trigger a war against a group of vigilantes, street gangs, and drug lords.
6) Emperor
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the legend of Shields 'Emperor' Green, a descendant of African kings turned outlaw slave in the pre-Civil War South. Seeking freedom for his family, Emperor fights his way north, joining the daring raid on Harper's Ferry and helping alter the course of American history.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in this Limited Event Series based on the award-winning novel. The story is told from the point of view of "Onion," a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown's motley family of abolitionist soldiers battling slavery in Kansas, and eventually finds himself in the famous 1859 Army depot raid at Harpers Ferry, an inciting incident of the Civil War. It's a humorous and dramatic tale of Antebellum...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
One night in 1861, three escaped slaves made their way from the Confederate line to a Union-held fort. The runaways were declared "contraband of war" and granted protection. As word spread, thousands of runaway slaves poured into the fort, seeking their freedom. These "contrabands" made a home for themselves, building the first African American community in the country. In 1863, they bore witness to one of the first readings of the Emancipation Proclamation...
Language
English
Formats
Description
A magical look at the historic true tale of slave Henry Box Brown, a man who mailed himself to freedom in a wooden box from a plantation in Richmond, Virginia to freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1848. Narrated by **Emmy**-winning and **Academy Award**-nominated actress Alfre Woodard this lightly animated story uses entertaining verse to share Henry’s story. With the help of characters including Bird, Horse, Cricket and Cat, Henry avoids...
14) Harriet Tubman
Language
English
Description
Animated biography of Harriet Tubman as a DVD storybook.
Explores the daring exploits of the woman who, from 1849 to 1860, in 17 dangerous missions to the Confederate South, helped more than 300 slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad, earning her the honored name of the "Moses of her people" .
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Traces the journey to freedom taken by countless slaves, showing how they were guided, protected and pursued along the way. The extraordinary story is told through historical documents, visits to important sites, interviews with the descendants of noted abolitionists and commentary from experts.
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"On the verge of finishing her law degree, hardworking Sam (Khadijjah Mote) is conned into a chase to the Canadian border. Her odyssey goes viral after her spoiled competitor Tarquin (Delon de Metz) offers up a bounty for her captured notebook. Using the same modes of transportation runaway slaves would have had during the underground railroad time period, she must separate ally from adversary as she and her waggish accomplice (writer/director Tom...
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1815, and North Carolina widower and farmer August King sets off on his yearly trip to sell his produce and buy the stock and goods he will need to survive the winter. On his journey, he comes upon a young, female, run-away slave. Now King must decide if he will break the law and help her to freedom, or if he should leave her to be hunted down and, ultimately, returned to her slave owner.
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
RACE TO FREEDOM: THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD chronicles the dangerous journey of four determined slaves from a cotton plantation in America to the "Promised Land" in Canada.
HONEYDRIPPER: Tyrone Purvis (Danny Glover) will try anything to keep his blues lounge, The Honeydripper, alive. So when a popular guitar player fails to show up for a packed Saturday night, Purvis turns to a young wanderer for help.
STIGMA: Dr. Calvin Crosse (Philip Michael Thomas)...
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