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1) Cuba today!
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Travel with award-winning filmmaker, Marlin Darrah, as he explores present-day Cuba. From the capital city of Havana to the beautiful seaport of Santiago de Cuba, you'll marvel at the forbidden natural beauty of Cuba. Travel to Pina del Rio and visit the lush tobacco fields that produce the most sought-after cigars in the world. See sugar plantations and colorful towns unfold before your eyes, then walk the beaches of Matanzas and Cuba's colorful...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 170 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica, following the trials, tribulations and survival of July and her odious mistress Caroline on a sugar plantation.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 85 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This new film exposes multinational corporation culpability in the land grab of Africa which makes us reconsider where we get our fruit from. Banned in Cameroon, The big banana illustrates the poor working conditions in banana plantations and exposes the adverse impact of corporatocracy government on the people while reaping super profits for corporations. The side effects of plantation corporations on the people of Africa - and everywhere else in...
4) Antebellum
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (10 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Language
Español
Description
"A dreamlike depiction of the daily lives of Mayans living on a coffee plantation at the base of an active volcano. A ... fusion of fact and fable, this ... film is an immersive journey into its characters' customs and beliefs, chronicling with unblinking realism disappearing traditions and a disappearing people"--Container.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 90 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This film is the followup of First contact. It traces the fortunes of Joe Leahy, the mixed-race son of Australian explorer Michael Leahy, in his uneasy relationship with his tribal neighbors. Joe built his coffee plantation on land bought from the Ganiga in the mid 1970s. European educated, raised in the highlands of Papua, freed by his mixed race from the entanglements of tribal obligation, Joe leads a Western lifestyle governed by individualism...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 98 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 47 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A tour of four lavish mansions of cotton kings of the post-reconstruction era: the Swan House in Atlanta, built in the 1920s; Bishop's Palace in Galveston, Texas, built in 1892; Moody Mansion, also in Galveston, built between 1893 and 1895; and New Oreleans' Longue Vue House, built in the mid-twentieth century.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Two-disc 70th anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (233 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Feature film: Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara. The story begins on the O'Haras' Georgia plantation of Tara in antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction. This sweeping Civil War-era drama romance won an impressive 10 Academy Awards, and its immortal characters Scarlett, Rhett, Ashley, Melanie, Mammy and Prissy populate an epic story of enduring appeal across generations.
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10) Mandingo
Publisher
Legend Films
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A shocking look at plantation life in the Deep South. Mede is a slave whose master, Hammond Maxwell, intends on keeping him as a prizefighter. As Maxwell focuses his attention on his wenches and Mede's brutal training, his neglected wife turns her passions towards Mede himself."--Container.
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