VIDEOS/DVDs BEGINNING WITH LETTER F

Facing the Façade. New York: Cinema Guild, 1994. 1 videocassette (55 min.)
The lives and experiences of eight African-American students attending Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. AFR Videodisc 581

 

Facing the Truth. Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1999. 2 videocassettes (60 min. each)
Bill Moyers describes the efforts of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), providing footage of TRC hearings and interviews with apartheid victims and others. AFR Video 482

 

Facing Tomorrow. Morris Plains, NJ: Lucerne Films, 1987. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
Documentary about the World's Women's Conference which took place in Nairobi, Kenya, July 1985. The purpose of the conference was to exchange experiences among women from all over the world. Equality, development and peace were focuses of the conference. AFR Video 50

 

Faith Ringgold: the Last Story Quilt. Chappaqua, NY: L&S Video Enterprises, 1991. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
Faith Ringgold discusses aspects of her childhood, incidents from her life and her art education. She talks about her artwork and shows it to the viewer. AFR Video 95

 

Faith Ringgold Paints Crown Heights. Chappaqua, NY: L&S Video Enterprises, 1995. 1 videocassette (28 min.)
Faith Ringgold details the creation of the quilt she created to represent the diverse cultures and traditions comprising the area of Crown Heights in New York City. AFR Video 188

 

Family Across the Sea. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1991. 1 videocassette (56 min.)
A delegation of Gullah people travels from the United States to Sierra Leone to trace the roots of their heritage. Documents how the Gullahs incorporated many aspects of African culture in the daily life of the plantations. AFR Video 189

Fang: An Epic Journey. Prince Street Pictures, Inc., 2001. 1 videocassette (8 min.)
This is a work of fiction but everything in it is based on real events." About the journey of an African sculpture, beginning in Cameroon in 1904. The film then traces what happens to the sculpture in Paris in 1907 and 1917, Berlin in 1933, and New York in 1948. The sculpture finally ends up in a museum in 1970. AFR Video 517

Faat Kine. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 2001? 1 videcassette (110 min.)
Faat Kine is an independent single mother and successful businesswoman who runs a gasoline franchise. As she reflects back on her life, that of her mother and the future of her daughter, we recognize the difficulties facing women, the attitudes and institutions that have constrained them, as well as the possibility for change emanating from today's youth. AFR Video 520

Fatal Flood. Alexandria, VA: Distributed by PBS Home Video, 2005. 1 videodisc (60 min.)
In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois, to the Gulf of Mexico, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a thousand people and leaving a million homeless. Throughout the Delta, where the self-styled planter aristocrats ruled their black sharecroppers like feudal lords, the flood wrought a particularly devastating impact on the African American population. Fearing a permanent black exodus, some white planters prevented African American refugees from leaving the flood-ravaged area. Leroy Percy, who had been the rare white Southerner to advocate fair treatment of African American tenant farmers, played a central role in the drama. The disaster would reveal the limits of his compassion and lead him to betray his son. --Container. AFR Videodisc 123

Fathers. San Francisco, Calif.: California Newsreel, 2000. 1 videocassette (87 min.)
Each of these three films offers a critical look at the relationships between fathers and their children in contemporary Africa. In The father, the patriarch in question is ultimately the military dictatorship which terrorized Ethiopia in the ’70s and ’80s. Surrender shows the traditional face of paternal tyranny, a father controlling his son’s life. A Barber’s Wisdom shows a modern father who compromises his children in his relentless pursuit of money. AFR Video 671

The FBI's War on Black America / Maljack Productions ; produced and directed by Denis Mueller and Deb Ellis. Oak Forest, Ill.: MPI Home Video, 1990. 1 videocassette (50 min.)
Using interviews with survivors of the era and historic footage looks the FBI's Cointelpro program of the 1960"s which had as its goal the control/sabotage/elimination of segments of the Black leadership and militant organizations. Focuses on persons including Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Fred Hampton in whose murders the FBI may have had a hand and George Pratt who they helped frame for murder. AFR Video 514

Female Circumcision: Human Rites. Journeyman Pictures production; reporter/producer, Marion Mayer-Hohdahl. Princton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1998. 1 videocassette (41 min.)
Documents the ritual of female genital mutilation (female circumcision), practiced among some African groups. This video also explores its roots in myth and discusses movements underway to ban the practice. AFR Video 385

Femmes aux Yeux Ouverts = Women wih Open Eyes. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1994. 50 min., 41 sec. Profiles contemporary African women in four West African countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Benin. We meet a woman active in the movement against female genital mutilation, a health care worker educating women about sexually transmitted diseases, and businesswomen who describe how they have set up an association to share expertise and provide mutual assistance. AFR Video 229

Festive Land. Berkeley, CA: University of California Extension, Center for Media and Independent Learning, 2001. 1 videocassette (48 min.)
The meaning of the carnival in Bahia, Brazil is interpreted and explained by performers and academics. AFR Video 533

Fighting for Change: Women Facing the Challenge of a New South Africa. Hurleyville, NY: Distributed by Villon Films, 1996. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
Deals with social conditions, family, and apartheid. AFR Video 263

The Fighting Temptations. Hollywood, Calif.: Paramount, 2004.1 videodisc (122 min.)
Darren is a New York ad executive who travels to a small town in the Deep South after receiving word that his aunt has left him a sizable inheritance. Darren is informed that he will only receive the money if he successfully leads a local gospel choir to victory at an upcoming competition. Darren takes on the task of finding the best singers in town and forming the group. There, he meets Lilly, a single mother who not only possesses an incredible voice but also the ability to warm Darren’s cold heart. AFR Videodisc 216

Finzan. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1991? 1 videocassette (114 min.)
Story of two women steadfastly resisting the oppression of tradition. After the death of her husband, Nanyuma goes against tradition by refusing to marry her brother-in-law. The younger Fili tries to escape the ritual of female circumcision. AFR Video 33

First Film. Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources, 1995. 1 videocassette (45 min.)
Documents the 1951 Marshall family expedition to what is present day Namibia. Includes a wealth of information about Ju/'hoansi society, including details of material culture and social structure. AFR Video 247

First Person Singular. John Hope Franklin. South Carolina ETV: PBS Home Video, 1997. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
Explores the life and work of John Hope Franklin, distinguished American historian known for contributions both as a scholar and a civil rights activist. Franklin reminisces about his personal and professional life and examines some of the major events of 20th century African American history, many of which he lived through and participated in. AFR Video 299

First World Festival of Negro Arts. New York, NY: William Greaves Productions, 199-? 1 videocassette (40 min.)
Presents highlights of the festival held in Dakar, Senegal in the spring of 1966. AFR Video 17

Five Hundred Years Later. London: Halaqah Media Films, 2005. 1 videodisc (106 min.)
Filmed in five continents, this documentary film chronicles the struggles of people of African descent throughout the globe as they strive for basic freedoms and self-determination. Participants: Maulana Karenga, Francis Cress Welsing, Paul Robeson Jr., [et al.]. AFR Videodisc 181

Five on the Black Hand Side. Five on the Black Hand side, Santa Monica, CA: MGM Home Entertainment, 2001. 1 videodisc (96 min.)
 Mr. Brooks is the domineering head of his middle-class, African American family. However, Mr. Brooks must do some soul-searching after his previously subordinate wife joins their children in rebelling against her husband’s authoritative behavior. AFR Videodisc 111

Flame. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1996? 1 videocassette (85 min.)
Dramatization of the role of women fighters in the Zimbabwean liberation struggle, and of the abuses committed against women and peasants in the military and in Zimbabwean society at large. AFR Video 450

The Flip Wilson Show. Los Angeles, CA: Rhino Home Video, 2001. 1 videodisc (115 min.)
Flip Wilson with guest stars Lily Tomlin, Mohammed [sic] Ali, Jim Brown, Joe Namath, George Carlin, Bobby Darin, Johnny Cash, Johnny Mathis, Bill Russell, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Sandy Duncan, Howard Cosell, Marty Feldman. AFR Videodisc 192

The Flip Wilson Show. Los Angeles, CA: Rhino Home Video Retro Vision, 2000.
1 videodisc (115 min.)
Flip Wilson with guest stars Bill Cosby, Gina Lollabrigida, Big Bird, David Frost, Ray Charles, Don Rickles, Leslie Uggams, Tim Conway, Redd Foxx, Bobby Darin, Lucille Ball, and the Osmonds. AFR Videodisc 193

Focus Reparations. Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2001. 1 videocassette (11 min.)
In this program, NewsHour correspondent Elizabeth Bracket reports on a Chicago resolution in support of reparations to descendants of African American slaves. The segment includes interviews with proponents, Dorothy Tillman, a Chicago Alderman who sponsored the resolution and Rep. John Conyers who has sponsored a congressional bill to form a presidential commission to study the concept. Also interviewed are economist Walter Williams who opposes the resolution, as well as Alderman Brian Doherty, the only board member to dissent. AFR Video 505

A Force More Powerful. United States: York Zimmerman, 2000. 2 videodiscs (174 min.)  
This six-part series tells one of the 20th century’s most important and least-known stories-- how nonviolent power overcame oppression and authoritarian rule. In South Africa in 1907, Mohandas Gandhi led Indian immigrants in a nonviolent fight for rights denied them by white rulers. The power that Gandhi pioneered has been used by underdogs on every continent and in every decade of the 20th century to fight for their rights and freedom. AFR Videodisc 296

Forgotten Genius. Boston: WGBH Boston Video, 2007. 1 videodisc (112 min.)
Story of Percy Julian’s scientific breakthroughs and a biography of his life with period reenactments based on newly opened family archives and interviews with dozens of colleagues and relatives. Participants: Narrated by Courtney B. Vance. Commentary by James Anderson, Gregory Petsko, Bernard Witkop, Dagmar Ringe, Gregory Robinson, Ned Heindel, Ray Dawson. AFR Videodisc 289

Forsaken Cries: The Story of Rwanda. Washington, D.C.: Amnesty International USA, 1997. 1 videocassette (ca. 35 min.) + 1 instructional guide (various pagings, loose-leaf ; 29 cm.)
Video examines the 1994 genocide in Rwanda as a case study in the human rights challenges of the 21st century. AFR Video 425

4 Little Girls. New York: HBO Home Video, 1998. 1 videocassette (102 min.)
The Birmingham Campaign was launched in 1963. Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists were soon jailed...but it was the participation of the children that advanced the momentum of the Birmingham movement. They marched alongside the adults and were taken to jail with them as well. The 16th St. Baptist Church was close to the downtown area, it was an ideal location to hold rallies and meetings. On Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963, dynamite planted by the Ku Klux Klan, exploded in the building...under the fallen debris the bodies of [four] girls were found--Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley died because of the color of their skin. AFR Video 512

Four Women Artists. Memphis, TN: Southern Culture Video from the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, 1977. 1 videocassette (25 min.)
Four women artists from Mississippi discuss their art and lifestyles. Includes writer Eudora Welty, quiltmaker Pecolia Warner, painter Theora Hamblett, and Ethel Mohamed, who creates embroidered pictures. AFR Video 132

48 Hours: United States: Paramount, 1998. 1 videodisc (96 min.)
Nick Nolte is a rough-edged cop after two vicious cop-killers. He can't do it without the help of smooth and dapper Eddie Murphy, who is serving time for a half-million dollar robbery. Both pursue their separate goals--Nolte wants the villains and Murphy wants his money and some much-needed female companionship. AFR Videodisc 9

Foxy Brown. Santa Monica: MGM Home Entertainment, 2001 (1974 release). 1 videodisc (91 min.) Foxy Brown (Pam Grier) finally has found the love of her life. He is an undercover narcotics investigator who is later murdered in cold blood. In order to find the killers, she goes undercover as a call girl. AFR Videodisc 12

Framing the Panthers in Black and White. New York, NY: Pressa, 1990. 1 videocassette (28 min.)
Charts the FBI's covert campaign against the Black Panther Party, focusing on the story of one of its targets, Dhoruba Bin Wahad. AFR Video 31

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel,1995. 1 videocassette (50 min.)
A film biography of Frantz Fanon, one of the most influential theorists of the anti-colonial movements of the 20thcentury. AFR Video 307 (two copies)

Fred Hampton: Life and Death of a Revolutionary. Chicago: Film Group, 1969. 1 videodisc (88 min.)
On October 4, 1969, FBI-directed Chicago police raid, four Panthers suffered gunshot wounds, and Mark Clark and Fred Hampton were murdered. This film shows what the police do to those who dare to challenge government authority. It also shows the footage of the wreckage directly contradicted the State’s Attorney’s version of the raid. AFR Videodisc 207

Frederick Douglass: Experience the Sprit. Manhattan Beach, CA: Story Corporation of America, 2007. 1 videodisc.
Monologue by "Douglass" interspersed with still period photographs. Participants, Michael E. Crutcher Sr. AFR Videodisc 294

Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History. Alexandria, VA: PBS Video, 1994. 1 videocassette (89 min.)
Archival materials and Douglass' autobiographical writings are used to present the story of his life. AFR Video 196

Freedom Now, 1947. Burlington, VT: WGBH Boston Video, 1998. 1 videocassette (56 min.)
Narrator: Alfre Woodard. In 1947, 160 years of British rule came to an end as India became the world's largest democracy, inspiring the fight for freedom on another continent. This film talks with the people who witnessed and participated in the struggle for independence in India and Africa. AFR Video 360

Freedom on My mind. San Francisco, Calif.: California Newsreel, 1994. 1 videocassette (110 min.)
Documentary of the civil rights movement and the events surrounding the Mississippi Voter Registration Project of the early 1960's. Combines archival footage with contemporary interviews. AFR Video 317

Freedom’s Call. New York, NY: Filmmakers Library, 2006. 1 videodisc (30 min.)  
Two African-American journalists who covered the events of the Civil rights movement in the fifties and sixties return to the deep South where it all took place. The journalists are Dorothy Gilliam, who later became first female African American reporter at The Washington Post, and Ernest Withers, renowned photographer whose photos were published in the black press, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. Their journey brings back memories of those turbulent times. AFR Videodisc 281

Friday Foster. Santa Monica, Calif.: MGM Home Entertainment, 2001. 1 videodisc (91 min.)
Friday Foster, ace photographer for "Glance" magazine, and Colt Hawkins, private eye, team up to solve an international plot to assassinate leaders from around the world. AFR Videodisc 79

From Dreams to Reality a Tribute to Minority Inventors. Huntsville, Texas : Education Video Network, [199-?] 1 videocassette (28 min.)
Pays tribute to minority inventors whose many inventions have contributed to American science, technology, and medicine. AFR Video 374

From Jumpstreet. Washington, D.C.: WETA-TV, 1979-82. 1 videocassette (113 min.)
Using performances, interviews, documentary films and animation, this series explores the black musical tradition from its African sources to its present place in American music. AFR Video 539

"Fundi": The Story of Ella Baker. New York, N.Y.: First Run/Icarus Films, 1986. 1 videocassette (63 min.) + 1 discussion guide (26 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.)
Shows the work of Ella Baker, a little-known organizer in the civil rights movement of the past fifty years. She served in the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, often when women were not always given equal status within these organizations. Documents the struggle of Black people for justice and equality. AFR 549