Steve McQueen
Author
Language
English
Description
Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, Northup published...
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 134 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Solomon Northup. It is 1841, and Northup, an accomplished, free citizen of New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Stripped of his identity and deprived of all dignity, Northup is ultimately purchased by ruthless plantation owner Edwin Epps and must find the strength within to survive. Filled with powerful performances by an astonishing cast including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbener, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad...
3) Widows
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four women with nothing in common except a debt left by their dead husbands' criminal acts conspire to take fate into their own hands.
4) Hunger
Series
Criterion collection volume 504
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 unnumbered pages ; illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, 27-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government's refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners. A transcendent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure in order to be heard.
5) Shame
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brandon is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life spirals out of control.
6) Shame
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brandon is a New York businessman who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister moves into his apartment, stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life spirals out of control.
