Andrea Kalin
1) The pact
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
By high school, Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt and George Jenkins already knew too much about the drugs, crime and grinding poverty that colored their world. They pledged to help each other make it to college and even medical school. The doctors beat the odds and returned to their community to practice medicine. Now, despite grueling work loads, they face an even more daunting task: to inspire other to stay off drugs, out of gangs, and in school.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In 1788, a slave ship sailed from the Gambia River with hundreds of men, women and children bound in chains. Eight months later, a handful of survivors were sold in Natchez, Mississippi. One of them made an astonishing claim: he was a prince of an African kingdom larger and more developed than the newly formed United States. The true story of an African prince who endured the humiliation of slavery without losing his dignity or hope of freedom.
Publisher
Filmhub
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Witness the achievements of two men who came together in an unlikely time and place to leave the world a life-saving legacy. In 1930s Nashville, a white surgeon and a black carpenter's apprentice forged a partnership that changed medical history.
Publisher
SNI/SI Networks
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This documentary recounts the role of the Federal Writers Project as the largest cultural experiment in the nation's history. Program focuses on the role played by writers who recorded local and oral histories all over the nation, many finding national acclaim as a result.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The news from the Middle East worsens daily into a nightmare scenario--one eerily foretold in 2012 as two young, unlikely Syrian activists launch a radical plan for bringing democracy to their country, besieged by the brutal Bashar al-Assad regime. Under threat of death and armed only with the Internet, they organize when no one else will"--Container.