Danny Glover
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"It's Union Time, people!" - the rallying cry of workers at the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina. Since its opening in 1993, employees of the plant have endured various abuses such as intimidation tactics, low pay, and dangerous working conditions which resulted in bodily injury and, on one occasion, death. Often treated as expendable, the workers came together and engaged in a 16-year-long struggle for the right...
4) The Garden
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Captures the explosive and wrenching turn of events when greedy developers, inept politicians, and self-serving 'community' leaders run roughshod over the lives of working-class families fighting to save the 14-acre urban farm that has become their very source of survival. Exposes the fault line in American society and raises crucial and challenging questions about liberty, equality, and justice for the poorest and most vulnerable among us.
5) The Revolt
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Tula, The Revolt' is an international English spoken feature length movie about the leader of the big slave uprising on the island of Curacao, a Dutch colony in 1795. 'Tula The Revolt' tells the true story of a man who dared to stand up against his oppressors leading his people in a peaceful march for freedom, equality and brotherhood. An action movie, but at the same time a character movie, giving the audience the insights of a reluctant leader,...
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In celebration of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday in February 2009, we present this story of the unusual friendship between two great American leaders. At a time when racial tensions were high and racial equality was not yet established, Lincoln and Douglass formed a strong bond over shared ideals.
7) Checkmate
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Six people come together during an elaborate bank heist in which any move can alter the outcome. Is it coincidence, or are they merely pawns in a much bigger game? Stars Danny Glover, Vinnie Jones and Sean Astin.
8) Sins
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David begins experiencing cloudy memories of a long-lost life amidst the violent Cortello family in Sicily...a family he ultimately betrayed. And the wages of sin are deadly.
9) Strive
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A young, African American teenage girl living in Harlem excels in school, with help from her supportive guidance counselor, with dreams of going to Yale. As her mother struggles to make ends meet and her brother and sister encounter issues of their own, she learns that hard work, optimism, and perseverance in the face of overwhelming adversity is the essence of what it is to be alive.
10) Day of the Mummy
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Welcome to Egypt, land of the Pharaohs. A place steeped in history and legend; Gods and spiritual guides; untold wealth – and the bone-cracking, blood-spilling guardians of its riches. Jack Wells has arrived in Egypt in search of the famous diamond known as The Codex Stone. His journey leads him to the tomb of the cursed King Neferu, cursed not by name but by nature. With his centuries-old slumber disturbed by timeless human greed, the King rises...
11) Bopha!
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Micah Mangena is sitting on a powder keg and doesn't know it. He's a sergeant in South Africa's police force, a supporter of the powers that be. But the strife tearing at the fabric of 1980 South Africa is about to rip Micah's own world apart.
12) Freedom Song
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Danny Glover and writer/director Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams) reveal the impact of the 1960s civil rights movement on a small Southern town in the compelling drama Freedom Song.In the fictional town of Quinlan, Mississippi, the arrival of a civil rights group leader inspires a young African-American teenager, Owen Walker (Vicellous Reon Shannon), to join the crusade to desegregate his hometown. Leading sit-ins and helping black people register...
13) Mysteria
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A once famous and now a washed-up Hollywood screenwriter fighting to finish his latest script with an unrealistic deadline. He finds himself in the center of a murder investigation involving a prominent politician's wife. The surrounding events feed him inspiration for his script.
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New Environmentalists volume 1
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Fresh water is one of Earth's sacred resources. Lake Turkana's freshwater resources are vital to countless people who rely on it for sustenance. When a dam threatened to disturb the Lake's ecosystem, some took action to protect their home.
15) Switchback
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A serial killer is on the loose. And he's kidnapped the son of the FBI agent pursuing him. But who is the killer? With powerful performances by Quaid and Glover, Switchback zigzags through sensational thrills and surprises around each turn.
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ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2012
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Set in a medieval realm where Captain Ahab and crew hunt dragons for the vitriol that powers their world, Ishmael, a charismatic harpooner and his friend Queequeg join their quest. Ahab's adopted daughter Rachel, beautiful and tough, runs the hunting vessel. Ahab's obsession to seek revenge on a great White Dragon that slaughtered his family when he was young and left his body scarred and mauled drives the crew deeper into the heart of darkness.
18) Proud Mary
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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[2018]
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Mary is a hitwoman working for an organized crime family in Boston. Her life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes awry.
19) Almost Christmas
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Universal
Pub. Date
2017
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A beloved patriarch asks his family for one gift this holiday season: to get along. If they can honor that wish and spend five days under the same roof without killing one another, it will be a Christmas miracle.
20) Blindness
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Miramax Films
Pub. Date
2009]
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A city is ravaged by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where societal norms quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hording the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. Inside the hospital is one eyewitness to the nightmare. Following her husband into the hospital, a woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague...