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VIDEOS/DVDs BEGINNING WITH LETTER C

Cabin in the Sky. New York, NY: MGM/UA Home Video, 1992. 1 videocassette (99 min.)
This glowing musical fantasy combines a heart-warming story of faith and devotion with a brace of memorable songs. The cast includes Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Rex Ingram, Duke Ellington and his orchestra, and the Hall Johnson Choir. AFR Video 107

 

Camp de Thiaroye = Camp Thiaroye. New York, N.Y.: New Yorker Video, 1998. 1 videocassette (152 min.)
African soldiers, returning home after fighting in World War II, are massacred in a dispute over pay. AFR Video 516.

 

Caribbean women writers: the first international conference. Wellesley, Mass.: Produced by Banyan for Calaloux Publications, 1994. 1 videocassette (48 min.)
Women writers of English speaking Caribbean Artea talk about literature of women authors. The first international conference of women writers of English speaking Caribbean Area interspersed. AFR Video 345

 

Carmen: A Hip Hopera. United States: New Line Home Entertainment, 2002. 1 videodisc (88 min.)
A timeless story of desire, passion, and betrayal told through song by a cast of today's hip-hop stars. AFR Videodisc 10

 

Car Wash. Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, c2003
1 videodisc (97 min.)
Everybody is cleaning up and getting down in this classic comedy -- the first "disco slacker" movie from the decade that brought you the tube top, the polyester suit and lots of good times. --Container. AFR Videodisc 92

 

Caméra d'Afrique 20 Years. London: British Film Institute: Connoisseur/Academy Video, 1995. 1 videocassette (95 mins.)
Celebrates twenty years of African film, focusing chiefly on filmmakers from Francophone West Africa (including Sembene Ousmane and Souleymane Cisse). Also explores some of the issues confronting African filmmakers: the lack of production finance, difficulties of distribution, and ambiguities of state aid programs. AFR Video 316, Tape 1

 

Caméra Arabe. London: British Film Institute: Connoisseur/Academy Video, 1995. 1 videocassette (62 mins.)
Examines the new Arab art cinema of the post-colonial era, influenced largely by the Egyptian director Youssef Chahine. New filmmakers, unlike their earlier Egyptian film counterparts, must often struggle with government indifference or hostility. Interviewees include North African filmmakers (Abdellatif Ben Ammar, Nouri Bouzid, Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud) and directors from the wider Arab world (Omar Amiralay, Borhan Alawiya, Michel Khleifi, Mohamed Malass). AFR Video 316, Tape 2

 

Carrying a Heavy Load. Kingston, Jamaica: Phase Three/Sistren, 1992. 1 videocassette (36 min.)
Produced by the Social Action Centre for the Association of Development Agency Jamaica. Documentary blends the facts about the difficulties in Caribbean economic and social living conditions and presents them in a musical format. AFR Video 208

 

CBS Reports: Crisis in Black America. CBS News. 1986. 1 videocassette (105 min.)
Focuses on the problems of Black single-parent families in Newark, N.J. In conversations with unmarried parents, Moyers talks about patterns of teen-age pregnancy, the role of welfare, and the changes in values among Black families. AFR Video 584

 

The Celebration of Kwanzaa: Echoes of Africa. Canoga Park, CA: MVP Home Entertainment, [1998], 1996. 1 videocassette (25 min.)
Celebrating the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa, giving thanks for first fruits and rekindling important principles for seven days. AFR Video 519

Chappell’s Show. United States? Comedy Central Home Video: Paramount Pictures, c2004. 2 videodiscs (283 min.)
All 12 uncensored and unblurred episodes with commentary on 5 from creators David Chappelle and Neal Brennan. AFR. Videodisc 142-pt. 1-2

Chappelle’s Show. Season Two Uncensored! Hollywood, Calif.: Paramount, 2005. 3 videodiscs (ca. 308 min.)
Dave Chappelle is back and he has even more to say. He contains the right mix of edginess, profanity, grotesque features, and sexual situations to have a hit. His guests include Rick James, Lil’ Jon, and Wayne Brady.Dave Chappelle is back and he has even more to say. He contains the right mix of edginess, profanity, grotesque features, and sexual situations to have a hit. His guests include Rick James, Lil’ Jon, and Wayne Brady. AFR Videodisc 166

Chappelle’s Show: The Lost Episodes. Hollywood, Calif. Comedy Central Home Video; Paramount, 2006.1 videodisc (68 min.)
Dave Chappelle is back! Sort of. Three completed episodes from the long-lost third season of Chappelle’s Show are finally available for mass consumption. With the success of the first two seasons, Dave finally gets to meet the President of Show Business, spends some time in the limelight on MTV’s Cribs, and gives his best impersonations of P. Diddy, ’Lil Jon and Gary Coleman. Combine that with some great musical guests and you’ve got proof that Dave Chappelle is now and forever will be one of the funniest, most boundary-pushing comedians ever to grace television. AFR Videodisc 184  

Charles Drew: Determined to Succeed. Atlanta, GA: History on Video, 1995. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
Story of the life of Dr. Charles Drew, who transformed modern medicine through his method for preserving the plasma portion of blood for use in blood transfusions. AFR Video 357

Charles Johnson. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1992. 1 videocassette (29 min.) Johnson describes his literary objective: to explore classic, metaphysical questions from East and West against the backdrop of African American life and history. AFR Video 144

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom. Past America, Inc. Monterey, Calif.: Monterey Home Video: Distributed by Monterey Movie Company, 1996. 1 videocassette (113 min.)
Drama based on the true story of Charlotte Forten, a young black woman who proposed a unique experiment to President Lincoln. During the Civil War, Southern troops were forced off the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia, which left 8,000 slaves as free. Miss Forten's mission was to lead those slaves in the transition from slavery to freedom, and prove to the nation that they were equal. AFR Video 384

Child of the Terraces = Asfar al-sath Halfaouine. New York, NY: Kino International, 1997. In this coming-of-age film Noura, an inquisitive thirteen-year-old Arab boy, begins to experience his own sexual desires when he visits the local Turkish bathhouse with his mother. But just as Noura is awakened to the pleasures of the opposite sex, he risks being wrestled from their tender, affectionate companionship and thrust into the callous and rigid company of men. AFR Video 492

The Children’s March.  Montgomery, Ala.: Teaching Tolerance, 2005. 1 videocassette (40 min.)
This video contains vintage film footage, re-staging of some activities, and interviews with some of the protesters. In May of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. asked black people of Birmingham, Alabama to go to jail in the cause of racial equality. The adults were afraid to go to jail and so the school children marched and over 5000 of them were arrested. This lead to President Kennedy sponsoring the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the march on Washington. AFR Video 638

Children of the Forest. Santa Monica, CA: Pyramid Film & Video, 1985. 1 videocassette (28 min.)
Portrays the life of the nomadic Mbuti pygmies of Zaire. Shows their primal world of hut building, food gathering, and a hunt for a bull elephant. AFR Video 41

Chinua Achebe. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities, 1994.1 videocassette (28 min.)
Bill Moyers interviews Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe who discusses the West's often inaccurate portrayal of Africa and how it is the African storyteller's obligation to be the collective memory of the African people. AFR Video 319

Chinua Achebe: African literature as Celebration. Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1999. 1 videocassette (52 min.)
Uncompromising yet nonpartisan in his views on politics and writing, Chinua Achebe -- author, editor, and literary critic -- ceaselessly explores the collision of European and indigenous African cultures. In this lecture the well-known ambassador of African literature delivers a thought-provoking introduction to the world-class writing that has come from Nigeria and other African countries during the latter half of the 20th century. AFR Video 460

Chinua Achebe: Africa's Voice. Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1999. 1 videocassette (61 min.)
This program analyzes the impact Chinua Achebe and his writings have had on world literature, as well as his influence as an editor and a spokesman for a generation of African writers. Dr. Achebe, professors Abiola Irele and Gerald Graff, and Charles Larson, editor of the anthology Under African Skies, discuss the characterization, social implications, and levels of interpretation of Things Fall Apart. Vital concepts indigenous to the Ibos of southeastern Nigeria such as oral culture, reincarnation, and negotiation--concepts essential to a deep understanding of the novel--are also presented. AFR Video 461

Chocolate. Santa Monica, Calif.: MGM Home Entertainment, 2001. 1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.)
A young woman returns to Cameroon to trace her past. Soon the sights, sounds and smells sweep her back to her childhood and memories of the people who populated her youth. AFR Videodisc 133

Chris Rock Never Scared. New York, NY: HBO Video; Burbank, CA: Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2004. 1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.)
Featuring Rock’s unique, insightful, and hilarious views on a host of social, political and celebrity issues. Rock confirms his stature as the leading comic of our time. AFR Videodisc 210

Chris Rock Show. United States: HBO Video, 2005. 2 videodiscs (120 min.)
This 2-disc set combines the best of Chris Rock’s ground-breaking, Emmy-award winning comedy, The Chris Rock Show. It’s an unrated, uncensored, uninhibited 2 hours of one of America’s finest comic minds. Includes Chris Rock’s Taxi Driver Confessions.
AFR Videodisc 187

Classified X. WinStar Home Entertainment, c1998. 1 videodisc (50 min.)
Examines the treatment of black characters throughout the history of American cinema, using examples from classic films beginning with footage by Thomas Edison in 1903 to the present, tracing how Hollywood has aided and abetted the public perception of the African-American. From its earliest days, Hollywood reflected society’s fear of blacks and countered with wish-fulfilling images of African-Americans as servile, ignorant, superstitious, or untrustworthy. AFR Videodisc 121

Claudine. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2002. 1 videodisc (92 min.)
While struggling to support herself and her six children in Harlem by working as a maid for a wealthy family, Claudine meets a charming garbage man, Roop. But although Roop is smitten with the lovely single mother, his own life trials make him slow to respond to her invitation to a lifetime of love. AFR Videodisc 85

Cleopatra Jones. Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video, c1999. 1 videodisc (89 min.)
A beautiful, tough drug enforcement agent intercedes when a menacing drug ring attempts to stage a retaliatory raid on a Los Angeles drug rehabilitation center. AFR Videodisc 76

Coffee Colored Children. New York: Woman Make Movies, c1988. 1 videocassette (17 min.)
A semi-autobiographical story of the experience of racism, prejudice, and self-definition in England. AFR video 651

Coffy. Santa Monica, CA: MGM Home Entertainment, [2001], 1 videodisc (90 min.)
Coffy, a young nurse, takes vengeance on the powerful drug ring that destroyed her younger sister’s life. AFR.Videodisc 83

Color Adjustment. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1991. 1 videocassette (87 min.)
Traces over forty years of race relations in America through the lens of prime time entertainment. Producers, scholars, black actors and others reveal how deep-seated racial conflict was absorbed into the familiar, non-threatening format of the television series. AFR Video 49

The Color Purple.Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video, c2003. 2 videodiscs (154 min.)
The heart-wrenching story of a young black girl in the early 20th century who’s forced into a brutal marriage and separated from her sister. AFR. Videodisc 134-pt 1-2

Come Back, Africa. Vancouver, BC: Villon Films, 199-? 1 videocassette (81 min.)
American filmmaker, Lionel Rogosin, teams up with African writers in South Africa to secretly produce an anti-apartheid docudrama. The story centers around Zachariah, an African migrant who comes to Johannesburg in search of work. As a black worker without a permit, Zachariah is subject to arbitrary dismissal and sudden arrest by the white authorities, as well as the violence of the black township. The film explores life in and around the township of Sophiatown, including scenes in a bar or "shebeen". AFR Video 525

Come Back Charleston Blue. Burbank, Calif.: Warner Home Video, 1996. 1 videocassette (101 min.)
Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones are two Harlem plains clothes men, investigating drug dealing in Harlem by a prominent drug king. AFR Video 641

Comedia infantil. New York, NY: ArtMattan Productions, 1997. 1 videocassette (92 min.)
The film depicts the life of an orphan boy, Nelio, whose parents were killed by guerrillas. He escapes to the city and finds magic there and is soon rumored to possess healing powers. AFR Video 523

Coming to America. Hollywood, CA: Paramount, 1999. 1 videodisc (114 min.)
Comedy about a wealthy, pampered African prince who comes to America in search of a bride. Accompanied by his closest companion, the prince quickly finds a new job, new friends and lots of trouble. AFR Videodisc 217

Coming to Life: Stories of Hope, Healing & AIDS. NAACP, 1999. 1 videocassette
Shows personal narratives of people living complete, productive lives despite the HIV virus and AIDS. AFR Video 438

Compensation. San Diego, CA: Wimmin with a Mission Productions; New York, N.Y.: Distributed by Women Make Movies, 1999. 1 videocassette (92 min.)
The life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900’s parallels with another living in the 1990’s. Also includes the six-minute documentary of the making of the film, "Working with a deaf actress." AFR Video 666

Consequences. Columbia, MD: Distributed by DRS, 1988. 1 videocassette (54 min.)
Rita is sixteen years old, living in high density area of Africa. For Rita, life is at its peak until the day she finds out she is pregnant. The consequences are staggering. AFR Video 267

A Conversation with C.L.R. James. Ithaca, NY: Media Services, Cornell University; Wellesley, MA: Calaloux Publications, 1995? 1 videocassette (60 min.)
Philosopher, novelist, writer on criticism, and Marxist thinker, C.L.R. James talks about his readings and his intellectual achievements in his London home with Selwyn R. Cudjoe. AFR Video 137

A Conversation with Lawrence Scott: A White Trinidadian Writer Who moved to England in 1963. Wellesley, MA: Calaloux Publications, 1996. 1 videocassette (31 min.)
Lawrence Scott, author of Ballad of the New World (a collection of short stories), and Witchbroom, is interviewed by Selwyn Cudjoe, a professor at Wellesley College. Scott discusses his time in the monastery, and then goes into religious and sexual motifs of Witchbroom. He then reads a section of the tale of the first house from the novel Witchbroom. AFR Video 245

Cornbread, Earl and Me. Santa Monica, CA: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, c2001. 1 videodisc (96 min.)
When a promising high school basketballer (Cornbread) is accused of rape and mistakenly killed by the police, it is up to his 11-year old brother Wilford and his pal Earl to find the courage to speak up and clear Cornbread’s name. AFR Videodisc 81

Cooley High. Santa Monica, CA: MGM Home Entertainment, 2000. 1 videocassette (107 min.)
Fun-loving and warm movie about high school life in the 1960's. Preach, a serious-minded writer and Cochise, a basketball hero headed for college, are best friends at Cooley High in Chicago. Together, they cut classes to go to the zoo, crash parties, put the hustle on some hustlers, and dream of getting out of their impoverished, rough neighborhood. AFR Video 510

Cotton Comes Back to Harlem. Santa Monica, CA: MGM Home Entertainment, c2001. 1 videodisc (96 min.)
St. Jacques is Coffin Ed Johnson and Cambridge is Gravedigger Jones, black cops who suspect preacher Lockhart’s back-to-Africa campaign is a swindle. Neatly combines action and comedy. AFR Videodisc 75

The Cow Jumped over the Moon. New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 1999. 1 videocassette (52 min.)
Documents the interaction between the tradition based knowledge of the West African nomads and the advanced technological capabilities of the United states, represented by agencies such as NASA and NOAA. AFR Video 435

Crash. Santa Monica, Calif.: Lions Gate Entertainment, 2005.
1 videodisc (122 min.)
A car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles. Crash takes a provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America. AFR Videodisc 183

Crossing Borders: Sexual and Reproductive Health in Namibia. Amherst, MA: Globo Loco Productions, 2004. 1 videodisc (34 min.)
This film takes on a journey to Namibia to learn about the people working to address HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, sexuality education, and providing quality education and services to women, men, youth, LGBT (Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) people and other disenfranchised communities in Namibia. AFR Videodisc 141