A gay man living through the HIV/AIDS crisis reflects upon his recent history of loss with the help of his grandmother, who tells him a story of her own trauma and loss during the Jim Crow-era South.
Although Dave (LeVar Burton) and his family are poor sharecroppers in the Deep South in the 1930s, this 15-year-old's problem is shared by teenagers today: he stands with one foot in adulthood and the other in childhood. "Almos' A Man", yet still treated like a child, he struggles for an identity. There's one thing, one symbol of manhood, Dave thinks, that could guarantee him instant respect: a gun.
Lonnie Wilson returns to small southern hometown after spending six years on the chain-gang for killing Colonel Ben Marquand's son in an automobile accident. He revives his love affair with Melinda Marquand........
The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son and a socialite wife who wants a divorce. He begs the Weavers to trade places with him and fix things up.
By the start of World War II, Paul Robeson had given up his lucrative mainstream work to participate in more socially progressive film and stage productions. Robeson committed his support to Paul Strand and Leo Hurwitz’s political semidocumentary Native Land. With Robeson’s narration and songs, this beautifully shot and edited film exposes violations of Americans’ civil liberties and is a call to action for exploited workers around the country. Scarcely shown since its debut, Native Land represents Robeson’s shift from narrative cinema to the leftist documentaries that would define the final chapter of his controversial film career.
A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as farmers?
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
V americkej dráme o živote jednej farmárskej rodiny sa môžete vypraviť do povodia slávnej rieky Mississippi za horúceho leta roku 1957. Ben Quick je mladý, ctižiadostivý muž, ktorý je neprávom prenasledovaný povesťou podpaľača. Usadí sa v malom mestečku Frenchman's Bend a snaží sa začať odznova, ale jeho zlá povesť ho dostihne aj tu...
In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
Lazzaro je mladík tak dobrosrdečný a úprimný, až sa niektorým ľuďom zdá hlúpy. Žije v odľahlej časti Talianska v izolovanej komunite roľníkov, ktorí už pred desiatkami rokov stratili kontakt so zvyškom sveta a bez nároku na mzdu, vzdelanie alebo slušné životné podmienky tvrdo pracujú pre svoju premúdrelú paní. Bez možnosti porovnanie však žijú svojím spôsobom šťastne. Keď skupinu zotročených dedinčanov zhodou náhod objaví polícia, roľníci zisťujú, v akom klamstve roky žili a s vidinou splnených snov sa vydávajú do mesta. Zatiaľ čo ostatní prezívajú tvrdý stret s novou realitou, Lazzaro zostáva aj uprostred moderného sveta až dojemne dobrý a prirodzený a pôsobí ako čriepok stratenej minulosti.