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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The past is not dead. It's not even past - William Faulkner. Humorous, poignant, probing and suspenseful, Moving midway follows a real-life family commotion that swirls around one of America's most contested and controversial icons: the Southern plantation. New York film critic-turned-filmmaker Godfrey Cheshire returns home to North Carolina and finds that his cousin Charlie Silver proposes to uproot and relocate the family ancestral home, Midway...
Publisher
Cargo Film & Releasing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history. The director’s exploration of coastal South Carolina as a site of pride and racial trauma through Gullah cultural retention and land preservation is interrupted by the shootings at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Scarred justice: the Orangeburg Massacre 1968 brings to light one of the bloodiest tragedies of the Civil Rights era after four decades of deliberate denial. The killing of four white students at Kent State University in 1970 left an indelible stain on our national consciousness. But most Americans know nothing of the three black students killed at South Carolina State College in Orangeburg two years earlier. This scrupulously researched documentary...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An explosive video goes viral, showing a white school resource officer in South Carolina pull a Black teenager from her desk. One woman uproots her life to support the girl and dismantle the system, including facing the police officer.
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This film a ragtag group of wrestlers in North Carolina over the course of a week leading up to a big show. The film explores what happens when the over-the-top theatrics of the wrestling ring collide with the realities of the working-class South. The wrestlers aren’t paid for their passion, but they treat wrestling like any artist treats their work. Fake It So Real shares the triumphs and heartaches of an often under-appreciated American art form....
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
In 1969, black female hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina went on strike for union recognition and a wage increase, only to find themselves in a confrontation with the state government and the National Guard. Featuring Andrew Young, Charles Abernathy, and Coretta Scott King and produced by Local 1199, New York’s Drug and Hospital Union, I AM SOMEBODY is a crucial document in the struggle for labor rights.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
McElwee, Charleen Swansea, and several other memorable characters you met in Sherman's March invite you to pick up their story in Time Indefinite, McElwee's hilariously profound sequel to his much-beloved, critically acclaimed hit. When McElwee announces at the family gathering in South Carolina that he's going to marry a nice Jewish girl from Boston, the results are memorable. A series of unexpected bumps along life's road add a poignant, wistful...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After a quarter century of struggle, mill workers in Kannapolis, North Carolina won the single largest industrial union victory in the history of the South. Like most other industries in the South, Cannon Mills was sharply segregated until the 1960s and employment opportunities for African-Americans were limited to janitorial positions and other maintenance-type tasks outside the mills. As well, municipal services, the newspaper and even the police...
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
GRAMMY-nominated South Carolina rock band NEEDTOBREATHE quarantines in a house in Tennessee to make their eighth studio record — Into The Mystery. After cancelling their tour during the COVID-19 pandemic, the band comes together to make a record like they never have before. Featuring Jon Foreman of Switchfoot, Natalie Hemby of The Highwomen and others.
Publisher
The Groove Productions
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Go Fast, Turn Left: Voices from Orange County Speedway journeys to the grassroots of stock car racing in Rougemont, North Carolina, the site of the original Trico Motor Speedway built in the early 1960’s. The speedway is one of the South’s unique short tracks where Jeff Gordon, Scott Riggs, Jimmy Johnson, Jeff and Ward Burton, and many other racing greats have competed. The film follows drivers, dedicated family members, and track officials who...
Publisher
Whetstone Road
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When the horrific murder of nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015 sparks a national reckoning around the meaning of the Confederate flag, battle lines are drawn in Mississippi to determine the fate of the last state flag with the most powerful and divisive symbol of the Confederacy. In Look Away, Look Away, director Patrick O’Connor introduces us to an array of activists from both sides of the debate over Confederate symbols,...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This new documentary tells of a horrific, little-known incident of racial violence by police that became a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and,...
15) Ask Not
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Award-winning PBS documentary Ask Not is a compelling exploration of the history and effects of the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The film exposes the tangled political battles that led to the discriminatory law, and profiles courageous activists who fought for repeal. Discharged soldier Alex Nicholson was the only named plaintiff in the federal lawsuit that sparked national attention and pushed the U.S. government toward a speedy...
16) Building Bombs
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Offering rare archival footage and a deceptively upbeat atmosphere, this Oscar nominated film delves into the lives of a community gripped by the ultimate weapon of mass destruction – the hydrogen bomb. Pastoral Aiken, South Carolina is home to the Savannah River Plant, the epicenter of America’s top-secret atomic bomb-making apparatus. Within this nuclear company town, directors Mark Mori and Susan Robinson blow open a cover-up of massive radioactive...
Publisher
Imagine Video Productions
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It is the story of a community’s struggle for justice; with roots extending to the town of Abbeville, South Carolina and the horrific lynching of one of its prominent citizens, Anthony Crawford...It is the story of Crawford’s granddaughter, great-granddaughter, and great, great-granddaughter working alongside the families of Emmett Till, Michael Schwerener, James Earl Chaney, and Andrew Goodman to gain passage of United States Senate Resolution...
18) Homegoings
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Through the eyes of funeral director Isaiah Owens, the beauty and grace of African American funerals are brought to life. Filmed at the Owens Funeral Home in Harlem and the rural South, director Christine Turner's Homegoings takes an up-close look at the rarely seen world of undertaking in the black community, where funeral rites draw on a rich palette of tradition, history and celebration. It reveals the special status of undertakers in the community;...
19) Proper Pronouns
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
There are 30 transgender, ordained ministers in the United States. Six are in North Carolina. Dawn Flynn, Mykal Shannon, Liam Hooper, and Debra Hopkins fight intolerance and discrimination in the Bible Belt and battle narrow-mindedness within the religious community, fellow state natives, and their own families. In particular, the film follows Dawn, who at 61-years-old was publicly outed by a hairdresser. Being forced to reveal her double life sent...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The episode begins with William Tecumseh Sherman’s brilliant march to the sea, which brings the war to the heart of Georgia and the Carolinas and spells the end of the Confederacy. In March, following Lincoln’s second inauguration, first Petersburg and then Richmond finally fall to Grant’s army. Lee’s tattered Army of Northern Virginia flees westward towards a tiny crossroads town called Appomattox Court House. There the dramatic and deeply...
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