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Frontline: Dreams of Obama

Frontline: Dreams of Obama

PBS Video 041098

As Barack Obama assumes the presidency on January 20th, 2009, FRONTLINE tells the story of how a...

FRONTLINE: Endgame - AIDS in Black America

FRONTLINE: Endgame - AIDS in Black America

PBS Video 041585

Every ten minutes, someone in the US contracts HIV, and nearly half of the one million people in...

FRONTLINE: The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela (2011)

FRONTLINE: The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela (2011)

PBS Video 041473

FRONTLINE presents the story of the man behind the myth, probing Mandela's character, leadership...

GeoMinute Series Playlist

GeoMinute Series Playlist

Canadian Geographic Enterprises CGE015

A series of 13, 1 minute segments celebrating milestone anniversaries of significance in...

George Elliott Clarke - Ep. 10: Heart of a Poet (Season 2)

George Elliott Clarke - Ep. 10: Heart of a Poet (Season 2)

Makin Movies Inc. MJMM45

Governor General’s Award winning poet, librettist, and Professor George Elliott Clarke chronicles...

Golden Gloves

Golden Gloves

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525605

The Golden Gloves boxing tournament is the Canadian amateur's hope for success in the boxing world...

Greening the Land

Greening the Land

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525497

Greening the Land investigates the impact of deforestation on people in Sudan and presents the case...

Haiti: Land of Tragedy, Land of Hope

Haiti: Land of Tragedy, Land of Hope

Films Media Group 393863

The numbers alone are stunning: 8 million inhabitants, 70 percent of whom live below the poverty...

Hand of God, Hand of the Devil

Hand of God, Hand of the Devil

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527172

In April 1994, the international community sat by and watched while a million Tutsi men, women and...

Harriet Tubman - Conductor of the Underground Railroad: History Kids Series

Harriet Tubman - Conductor of the Underground Railroad: History...

Wonderscape Entertainment WE0040

Learn all about Harriet Tubman's early life, social impact, role in the Underground Railroad, later...

Harry Lee Execution (Ep 3): Canfield Roots

Harry Lee Execution (Ep 3): Canfield Roots

Windecker Road Films WRF003

On a cloudless February night in 1953, former Canfield resident Harry Lee was hung for murder in...

Hear! Here! A Musical Geographic

Hear! Here! A Musical Geographic

Auguste Content Inc. ACI000

Hear! Here! A Musical Geographic is hosted by Nova Scotia’s own multiple Juno award-winning...

Henry's Freedom Box

Henry's Freedom Box

Weston Woods WW854

by Ellen Levine, illustrated by Kadir Nelson (Scholastic) Henry dreams of a world where his...

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space...

Weston Woods WW3065

Written by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling Illustrated by Laura Freeman Narrated by...

History Kids Series

History Kids Series

Wonderscape Entertainment WE0038

Discover fascinating history facts from across the globe with these fact-filled videos. From...

Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community

Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523247

The Jane-Finch "Corridor" is an area of six square blocks in Toronto's North York. To the residents...

Hot Hippo

Hot Hippo

Weston Woods WW324

by Mwenye Hadithi Hippo promises not to eat Ngai's little fishes in exchange for being allowed...

Hue: A Matter of Colour

Hue: A Matter of Colour

National Film Board Of Canada NFB561195

Hue, by renowned director and cinematographer Vic Sarin, is a personal, heartfelt investigation...

In the Key of Oscar

In the Key of Oscar

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522853

This intimate portrait of pianist Oscar Peterson charts his meteoric rise from Montréal's "boogie...

Independent Lens: Birth of a Movement

Independent Lens: Birth of a Movement

PBS Video 041873

In 1915, African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a...

Independent Lens: More Than a Month

Independent Lens: More Than a Month

PBS Video 041608

Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a young African-American filmmaker, sets out on a cross-country campaign...

Independent Lens: Soul Food Junkies

Independent Lens: Soul Food Junkies

PBS Video 041632

Food traditions are hard to change, especially when they're passed on from generation to...

Inspiring Figures: Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald   (DVD)

Inspiring Figures: Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald (DVD)

Weston Woods WW681

Collection includes: Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa

Invasion of North Africa

Invasion of North Africa

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524261

This film reviews the situation in North Africa in 1942, and the events leading up to the British...

Islam

Islam

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521159

Islam is winning new converts, particularly in North Africa. This film explores the faith of the...

Joe

Joe

National Film Board Of Canada NFB522638

Seraphim "Joe" Fortes, born in the West Indies, became one of Vancouver's most beloved citizens...

John Henry

John Henry

Weston Woods WW377

by Julius Lester Based on the famous African American folk ballad “John Henry”, this story...

Journey to Justice

Journey to Justice

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521905

Journey to Justice pays tribute to a group of Canadians who took racism to court. They are Canada's...

Jump-up - Caribbean Carnival in Canada

Jump-up - Caribbean Carnival in Canada

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527995

A multicultural story that centres on the growing friendship of a newly-arrived West Indian child...

Juneteenth - Freedom Day: Holiday Kids Series

Juneteenth - Freedom Day: Holiday Kids Series

Wonderscape Entertainment WE0060

In this high-definition program, learn all about Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the end of...

Kamala Harris - The First Female Vice President: History Kids Series

Kamala Harris - The First Female Vice President: History Kids...

Wonderscape Entertainment WE0045

Learn all about Kamala Harris.  Explore her background and career path that led her from...

Lady Be Good: Instrumental Women in Jazz

Lady Be Good: Instrumental Women in Jazz

Passion River Films PR3388

This 80 minute documentary film concentrates on the contributions of American female...

Les routes de l’esclavage

Les routes de l’esclavage

ARTE France F196-S04

C’est l’histoire d’un monde où la traite d’esclaves a dessiné ses territoires et ses...

Long Ways to Go

Long Ways to Go

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523869

Made with the help of the Union United Church of Montréal, this film dramatizes some of the more...

Loyalties

Loyalties

National Film Board Of Canada NFB524428

This documentary is the story of two women whose meeting brought together two halves of a whole...

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World

March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World

Weston Woods WW852

by Dr. Christine King Farris, ill. by London Ladd (Scholastic) In celebration of the 45th...

Martin Luther King: A Call to Conscience (Tavis Smiley Reports: 3/31/2010)

Martin Luther King: A Call to Conscience (Tavis Smiley Reports...

PBS Video 041269

This episode delves into one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest speeches, "Beyond Vietnam: A Time...

Martin's Big Words

Martin's Big Words

Weston Woods WW612

by Doreen Rappaport. Using quotes from some of his beloved speeches, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr...

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou

Wonderscape Entertainment WE0024

Developed by an English curriculum writer, this program introduces students to the amazing life and...

Mighty Jerome

Mighty Jerome

National Film Board Of Canada NFB555069

In 1959, at just nineteen years of age, Harry Jerome was Canada’smost promising track and field...

Motion - Ep. 3: Heart of a Poet (Season 2)

Motion - Ep. 3: Heart of a Poet (Season 2)

Makin Movies Inc. MJMM38

Spoken word poet, educator and activist, Motion, Queen of the Real, aka Wendy Brathwaite, gives us...

Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP

Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP

PBS Video 041745

Civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall's triumph in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme...

Mr. Jane and Finch

Mr. Jane and Finch

OYA Media Group OYA000

Winston LaRose, a beloved 80-year-old activist/amateur documentarian who has documented the Black...

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters

Weston Woods WW334

by John Steptoe Mufaro's daughters are tested unknowingly to reveal which one is worthy enough...

Nelson Mandela: Canada AM

Nelson Mandela: Canada AM

CTV CTV613

A short, informative biography of Mandela - covers his involvement with the African National...

New Voices

New Voices

National Film Board Of Canada NFB525752

Describes the emergence of the Islamic world as a growing force among the new African nations, and...

Nigeria: Giant in Africa

Nigeria: Giant in Africa

National Film Board Of Canada NFB527738

This vivid recounting of Nigeria's history, from pre-European times to the mid-20th century...

No Past to Speak Of

No Past to Speak Of

National Film Board Of Canada NFB541421

No Past To Speak Of explores the horrific reality of infant rape in South Africa and investigates...

No Time to Stop

No Time to Stop

National Film Board Of Canada NFB523406

Kwai Fong Lai is from Hong Kong, Alberta Onyejekwe from Ghana, and Angela Williams from Jamaica...

Not Far from Bolgatanga

Not Far from Bolgatanga

National Film Board Of Canada NFB521470

In the late seventies, the government of Ghana, with the help of CIDA (the Canadian International...

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