VIDEOS/DVDs BEGINNING WITH LETTER O

 

O Heroi (The Hero). San Francisco: California Newsreel, 2005. 1 videodisc (97 min.)
Luanda, capital of Angola, is a huge city trying to cope with and overcome the profound legacy of a civil war that lasted for nearly 30 years. Vitório has just been discharged after almost 20 years of fighting in the war. During his last military assignment he stepped on a land mine and lost a leg. After recuperating, he finds himself alone, unemployed and homeless. He, along with the people that he encounters, attempt to build new lives at the same time as their country reconstructs in the postwar era. AFR Videodisc 265

Odun de Odun de: The Global Presence of African Spirit in Contemporary Art. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1994. 7 video cassettes (315 min.)
A two-day symposium, held in October 1994 at the Art Institute and the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco in conjunction with a Bay Area celebration of African and African American influences on contemporary art. AFR Video 177

The Old Man of Africa. New York, NY: CBS News, 1989. 1 videocassette (15 min.)
A brief look at the influence of Ivory Coast's President Felix Houphouet-Boigny on the country's progress since independence in 1958. AFR Video 90

On Location with Redd Foxx. West Long Branch, NJ: Standing Room Only, 2006. 1 videodisc (60 min.)
Features his nightclub act, raw and uncensored, and gives the viewers another side of this comedic genius. AFR Videodisc 196

Once Upon a Time when We were Colored. Artisan Entertainment, 1998, c1995. 1 videodisc (113 min.). Tells the story of growing up in the segregation-era South, in a community that faced adversity and held together with amazing dignity and grace. AFR Videodisc 32.

One Doctor Daniel Hale Williams: First Person Ever to Successfully Operate on the Human Heart. Atlanta, GA: History on Video, 1997. 1 videocassette (30 mins)
This is the first video biography on the Black surgeon who was the first person to successfully perform an operation on the human heart, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams. One Doctor covers his life and career and this heart iperation that gave him international acclaim in 1893. Dr. Williams, however, made many more contributions to the American medical profession. The nation's first interracial hospital, Provident Hospital, was founded by Dr. Williams in Chicago, provding Black doctors and nurses with their first opportunity for advanced training. AFR Video 358

One-Drop Rule. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 2001. 1 videocassette (47 min.)
One-drop rule asks what makes someone Black? Is it ’one drop of blood?’ A way of speaking and dressing? Is being black really a matter of attitude and worldview? The film tactfully explores skin color consciousness with African Americans and inter-racial adults of Black and white parents. Participants discuss the stresses of inter-racial dating. The children of inter-racial marriages explore feelings of being pressured by others to choose between two cultural identities. They explain the added burden of not being readily accepted by either racial group. In the end One Drop Rule becomes an eloquent plea that, in the words of Martin Luther King, we judge each other ’not by the color of our skin but by the content of our character.’--Container. AFR Video 650

One False Move. Burbank, CA: Columbia Tri-Star Home Video, 1998.
1 videodisc (106 min.)
After two ruthless drug dealers commit a brutal mass murder in Los Angeles and are forced to flee the state, their beautiful accomplice unwittingly leads them into a trap. Videodisc 55

One Week. United States: First Look Home Entertainment, 2002. 1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.)
The future has never looked brighter for Varon Thomas. He’s marrying the woman of his dreams, he’s up for a big promotion, and his best friend is finally moving out. But with his wedding one week away, a secret from his past threatens to ruin his life forever. AFRVideodisc 74

Only The Ball was White. MPI Home Video, 1992. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
Looks back at the time when major U.S. baseball leagues refused to hire Black athletes. Using archival footage, photographs, and interviews with former athletes, narrator Paul Winfield recounts the number of unrecognized athletes, some of whom, such as Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella, were later hired by the leagues. AFR Video 213

The Original Latin Kings of Comedy. Hollywood, Calif.: Paramount, 2002. 1 videodisc (87 min.)
A concert film featuring five of today’s hottest Latin-American stand-up comedians.  AFR Videodisc 263

The Other Half of Allah's Heaven = La moitié du ciel D'Allah. Un film de Djamile Sahraoui; texte dit par Laurence Bourdil, Saïd Amadis; réalisation, Djamila Sahraoui, 1995. 1 videocassette (52 min.)
Both women and men fought in the liberation struggle for Algeria. After independence, Algerian women have been forgotten and they are now fighting for their rights. Women in Algeria are particularly against the family code laws introduced in their Islamic country during the hile in prison. French dialogue with English subtitles. AFR Video 419

Otomo. New York, NY: ArtMattan Productions, 1999. 1 videocassette (82 min.)
Based on the true story of Frederic Otomo, a black man from West Africa, who is seeking work and asylum in Stuttgart, Germany. Otomo is driven to violence by the racism he encounters. AFR Video 457

Owu: Chidi Joins the Okoroshi Secret Society. New York: Ogbuide Corp., 1994. 1 videocassette (60 min.)
Filmed in an Igbo town of South Eastern Nigeria, Owu illustrates the connectedness of life, myth, religion and art, evidenced in an annual festival and masquerade sponsored by a men's secret society. AFR Video 290