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Frontline: Dreams of Obama
PBS Video 041098As Barack Obama assumes the presidency on January 20th, 2009, FRONTLINE tells the story of how a...
FRONTLINE: Endgame - AIDS in Black America
PBS Video 041585Every 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)
PBS Video 041473FRONTLINE presents the story of the man behind the myth, probing Mandela's character, leadership...
GeoMinute Series Playlist
Canadian Geographic Enterprises CGE015A series of 13, 1 minute segments celebrating milestone anniversaries of significance in...
George Elliott Clarke - Ep. 10: Heart of a Poet (Season 2)
Makin Movies Inc. MJMM45Governor General’s Award winning poet, librettist, and Professor George Elliott Clarke chronicles...
Golden Gloves
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525605The Golden Gloves boxing tournament is the Canadian amateur's hope for success in the boxing world...
Greening the Land
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525497Greening the Land investigates the impact of deforestation on people in Sudan and presents the case...
Haiti: Land of Tragedy, Land of Hope
Films Media Group 393863The numbers alone are stunning: 8 million inhabitants, 70 percent of whom live below the poverty...
Hand of God, Hand of the Devil
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527172In April 1994, the international community sat by and watched while a million Tutsi men, women and...
Harriet Tubman - Conductor of the Underground Railroad: History...
Wonderscape Entertainment WE0040Learn all about Harriet Tubman's early life, social impact, role in the Underground Railroad, later...
Harry Lee Execution (Ep 3): Canfield Roots
Windecker Road Films WRF003On a cloudless February night in 1953, former Canfield resident Harry Lee was hung for murder in...
Hear! Here! A Musical Geographic
Auguste Content Inc. ACI000Hear! Here! A Musical Geographic is hosted by Nova Scotia’s own multiple Juno award-winning...
Henry's Freedom Box
Weston Woods WW854by 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...
Weston Woods WW3065Written by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling Illustrated by Laura Freeman Narrated by...
History Kids Series
Wonderscape Entertainment WE0038Discover fascinating history facts from across the globe with these fact-filled videos. From...
Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523247The Jane-Finch "Corridor" is an area of six square blocks in Toronto's North York. To the residents...
Hot Hippo
Weston Woods WW324by Mwenye Hadithi Hippo promises not to eat Ngai's little fishes in exchange for being allowed...
Hue: A Matter of Colour
National Film Board Of Canada NFB561195Hue, by renowned director and cinematographer Vic Sarin, is a personal, heartfelt investigation...
In the Key of Oscar
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522853This intimate portrait of pianist Oscar Peterson charts his meteoric rise from Montréal's "boogie...
Independent Lens: Birth of a Movement
PBS Video 041873In 1915, African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a...
Independent Lens: More Than a Month
PBS Video 041608Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a young African-American filmmaker, sets out on a cross-country campaign...
Independent Lens: Soul Food Junkies
PBS Video 041632Food traditions are hard to change, especially when they're passed on from generation to...
Inspiring Figures: Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald (DVD)
Weston Woods WW681Collection includes: Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa
Invasion of North Africa
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524261This film reviews the situation in North Africa in 1942, and the events leading up to the British...
Islam
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521159Islam is winning new converts, particularly in North Africa. This film explores the faith of the...
Joe
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522638Seraphim "Joe" Fortes, born in the West Indies, became one of Vancouver's most beloved citizens...
John Henry
Weston Woods WW377by Julius Lester Based on the famous African American folk ballad “John Henry”, this story...
Journey to Justice
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521905Journey to Justice pays tribute to a group of Canadians who took racism to court. They are Canada's...
Jump-up - Caribbean Carnival in Canada
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527995A multicultural story that centres on the growing friendship of a newly-arrived West Indian child...
Juneteenth - Freedom Day: Holiday Kids Series
Wonderscape Entertainment WE0060In this high-definition program, learn all about Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the end of...
Kamala Harris - The First Female Vice President: History Kids...
Wonderscape Entertainment WE0045Learn all about Kamala Harris. Explore her background and career path that led her from...
Lady Be Good: Instrumental Women in Jazz
Passion River Films PR3388This 80 minute documentary film concentrates on the contributions of American female...
Les routes de l’esclavage
ARTE France F196-S04C’est l’histoire d’un monde où la traite d’esclaves a dessiné ses territoires et ses...
Long Ways to Go
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523869Made with the help of the Union United Church of Montréal, this film dramatizes some of the more...
Loyalties
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524428This 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
Weston Woods WW852by Dr. Christine King Farris, ill. by London Ladd (Scholastic) In celebration of the 45th...
Martin Luther King: A Call to Conscience (Tavis Smiley Reports...
PBS Video 041269This episode delves into one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest speeches, "Beyond Vietnam: A Time...
Martin's Big Words
Weston Woods WW612by Doreen Rappaport. Using quotes from some of his beloved speeches, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr...
Maya Angelou
Wonderscape Entertainment WE0024Developed by an English curriculum writer, this program introduces students to the amazing life and...
Mighty Jerome
National Film Board Of Canada NFB555069In 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)
Makin Movies Inc. MJMM38Spoken word poet, educator and activist, Motion, Queen of the Real, aka Wendy Brathwaite, gives us...
Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP
PBS Video 041745Civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall's triumph in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme...
Mr. Jane and Finch
OYA Media Group OYA000Winston LaRose, a beloved 80-year-old activist/amateur documentarian who has documented the Black...
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
Weston Woods WW334by John Steptoe Mufaro's daughters are tested unknowingly to reveal which one is worthy enough...
Nelson Mandela: Canada AM
CTV CTV613A short, informative biography of Mandela - covers his involvement with the African National...
New Voices
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525752Describes the emergence of the Islamic world as a growing force among the new African nations, and...
Nigeria: Giant in Africa
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527738This vivid recounting of Nigeria's history, from pre-European times to the mid-20th century...
No Past to Speak Of
National Film Board Of Canada NFB541421No Past To Speak Of explores the horrific reality of infant rape in South Africa and investigates...
No Time to Stop
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523406Kwai Fong Lai is from Hong Kong, Alberta Onyejekwe from Ghana, and Angela Williams from Jamaica...
Not Far from Bolgatanga
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521470In the late seventies, the government of Ghana, with the help of CIDA (the Canadian International...