VIDEOS/DVDs BEGINNING WITH LETTER T

Ta Dona. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1991. 1 videocassette (100 min., 10 sec.)
Story of the quest for secret knowledge by a young Bambara man. AFR Video 76

 

Tacarigua, a Village in Trinidad & Tobago. Ithaca, NY: Educational Television Center, Cornell University; Trinidad and Tobago: Calaloux Research Associates, 1985. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
An overview of the history and cultural diversity of Tacarigua on the island of Trinidad is told through personal reminiscences. AFR Video 8

 

Talam: A Musical Odyssey: Morocco. Xplora Productions, 1998. 1 videocassette.
The diverse cultures of Morocco demonstrate their music, song and dance. AFR Video 440

 

Talking Stones. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1992. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
Documents the work of sculptors from the Shona tribe in Zimbabwe. Highlights the traditional approach to their subject matter and their desire to produce sculptures that are truly unique to the African experience. AFR Video 34

Tassili N'Ajjer. Northbrook, IL: Roland Collection of Films and Video on Art, 1968. 1 videocassette (16 min.)
Shows the prehistoric rock paintings of the Saraha when the Sahara desert was a garden thousands of years ago. Early man used earth colors to paint on the stone walls of the cave. AFR Video 114

Textile Trade and Masquerade Among the Kalabari of Nigeria. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Media Distribution, 1994. 1 videocassette (72 min.)
Describes the Okuarusuun Festival of Buguma, Nigeria, celebrating the water spirits of the Niger River, and discusses the importance of imported textiles in distinctive Kalabari ethnic dress and festival ornamentation. AFR Video 253

That Rhythm--Those Blues. Alexandria, VA: PBS Video, 1988. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
A capsule history of black music, i.e. rhythm and blues, of the 1940's and early 50's given through interviews, reminiscences and vintage photographs and recordings. Black performing artists, promoters, record producers and disc-jockeys all contribute their varied recollections. Blues singer Ruth Brown and singer-pianist Charles Brown perform their hits of the period and recall the trials of bus tours through the segregated South. AFR Video 29

That's Black Entertainment. North Hollywood, Calif.: OnDeck Home Entertainment, 1997. 2 videocassettes (60, 47 min.)
CONTENTS: v. 1. Race movies : the early history of Black cinema -- v. 2. The soundies era: Black music video's from the 1940's. Since Afro Americans were not always welcome in white movie theatres and were badly represented in white movies, they made their own movies. Black producers, directors and actors were truer to the realities of life as they experienced and felt them than their white counterparts. AFR Video 324

That’s My Face, A Film (É minha cara). New York, NY: Wellspring Media, 2003. 1 videodisc (60 min.)
Filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris travels to Africa and Brazil in search of his spiritual ancestors. AFR Videodisc 292

These Hands. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1992. 1 videocassette (45 min.)
Surveys a typical workday in the lives of women in Tanzania, some refugees from Mozambique, who manually mine gravel used for making concrete for urban building projects. AFR Video 349

Things Fall Apart. Lagos, Nigeria: Nigerian Television Authority; Columbus, OH: Sudania, 1987. 13 video cassettes. Story of Okonkwo and the Nigerian village in which he lives under the impact of 19th century missionary colonialism. AFR Video 14

This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys. Boston: WGBH, PBS Video, 2003. 3 videodiscs--six episodes (360 min.)
Documents the African-American religious experience during the last three centuries from the early African slaves, through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Era, and into the 21st century. Explores the struggle of African-Americans in their faith and how it became a force for social, political and cultural change in the United States. AFR Videodisc 4 , Volumes 1-3

Episode 1: There is a River. There is a River explores the evolution of African-American religious thought, from the beliefs and rituals Africans brought to America to the influence of Christian teachings imposed on slaves in the new world. It charts the devbelopment of underground churches, and attempts by slaves and free blacks to unify the black community. It tells the stories of Sojourner Truth and Denmark Vesey. Both were born enslaved; both used the Gospel to shape their identities. However, both used their voices in very different ways-one chooses retribution and the other, engagement. AFR Videodisc 4 , Volume 1 (60 mins.)

 

Episode 2: God is a Negro. God Is a Negro takes place after Emancipation, as the minister and journalist Henry McNeal Turner uses the black church to engage newly freed blacks in the political realm. Pastor Turner helped organize the Repubican Party in Georgia only to find himself denied access to societal institutions as discrimination reigned in the dark days following Reconstruction. Turner encouraged his followers to find God from within. His emphasis on a black nationalist philosophy alienated him from the mainstream, but led to a greater role for the black church in African-American culture. AFR Videodisc 4 , Volume 1 (60 mins.)

 

Episode 3. Guide My Feet. Guide My Feet traces African-Americans as they move from the rural South to the promised land of the industrial North. It is the story of two sourthern migrants, Rev. Cecil Williams and Thomas A. Dorsey, born a generation apart, both seeking to bring the reality of the streets into the church. In Chicago, Thomas Dorsey, a pianist with blues singer Ma Rainey, invents gospel music. In San Francisco, the Reverend Cecil Williams develops a "come as you are" church. Through their work, Dorsey & Williams create new expressions of faith. AFR Videodisc 4 , Volume 2 (60 mins.)

 

Episode 4: Freedom Faith. Faith sustained Black families through the oppression of segregation in the 1940s and 1950s. It provided the courage needed to fight Jim Crow. The efforts of student workers on the front lines of the civil rights movement are shown from the perspective of Rev. Prathia Hall(1940-2002) and others.. Hall is one of many voices in the film-voices of ordinary people who, through faith, risked their lives to challenge America to live up to its promise "that all men are created equal." AFR Videodisc 4 , Volume 2 (60 mins.)

 

Episode 5: Inheritors of Faith. Inheritors of the Faith follows those who seek spiritual fulfillment outside of Christianity. It explores Islam and Yoruba. Yoruba originated in West Africa and pre-dates Christianity. Yoruba worshipers find a means of gaining strength and spirituality from within. The film also explores the role of the Nation of Islam, led by Elijah Muhammad. When Muhammad's son, Warith Deen, assumes leadership after his father's death, he transforms the organization to follow the practice of orthodox Islam (Louis X. Farrakhan resurrected the ideology of the old Nation of Islam in 1978). AFR Videodisc 4 , Volume 3 (60 mins.)

 

Episode 6. Raise Up and Call Their Names. In 1998, 60 people embarked on an Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage. The pilgrims took a physical and spiritual voyage, walking from Massachusetts to New Orleans, through the Caribbean, and ultimately, to Goree Island in Senegal. They pray for their ancestors and seek to heal the country's wounds of slavery through prayer vigils at historical slave sites. In time, they discover that the true wounds lie within themselves. After months of difficult travel and deep soul-searching, the pilgrims reach Africa with a stronger sense of identity and purpose. AFR Videodisc 4 , Volume 3 (60 mins.)

 

This House of Power. Santa Monica, CA: Xenon Home Video: Distributed by Xenon Entertainment Group, 1993. 1 videocassette (64 min.)
A tribute to the role of the church in the African-American experience, this documentary traces the development of the church from its origins as an "invisible institution" among the slaves to its present-day role as a major force for social change. AFR Video 325

 

Three Tales from Senegal. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1994. 1 videocassette (82 min.)
Le franc is a parable about thte plight of everyday Africans buffeted by the changing winds of the international monetary system. Picc mi (Little bird) is a story of two destitute boys who escape the predatory demands of adults to spend one day of freedom together. Fary l'anesse (Fary, the donkey) is a tale of a man led into folly by his pursuit of the perfect woman. When he thinks he has finally found her, she turns out to be a donkey. [In Wolof with English subtitles.] AFR Video 220

Thomas Sankara. New York, NY: ArtMattan Productions, 1991. 1 videocassette (26 min.): sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Captain Thomas Sankara was the leader of the Burkinabe Revolution. This film is a biographical profile of the revolutionary, the improvements he generated in his country and the new socio-political dimension he instituted in Burkina Faso. AFR Video 606

Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All. New York, NY: A&E Home Video, 1997. 1 videocassette (45 min.)
This historical documentary traces the career of the first Afro-American Supreme Court justice. AFR Video 326

A Time for Justice. Montgomery, Ala.: Teaching Tolerance, 1992. 1 videocassette (38 min.)
This documentary depicts the battle for civil rights, recalling the crises in Montgomery, Little Rock, Birmingham, and Selma, and reveals the heroism of the individuals involved. Recalls the battles for civil rights in Montgomery, Little Rock, Birmingham, and Selma. AFR Video 649

To Live with Herds. Berkeley, CA: University of California Extension Media Center, 1990? 1 videocassette (69 min.)
Karamoja District of northeastern Uganda. Their lives depend on balancing large herds of cattle against limited resources of food and water, leading to seasonal migrations. The Ugandan government presents the problems it faces in incorporating the Jie into its goals for building a modern nation. AFR Video 283

Tongues Untied. Santa Monica, CA: Strand Releasing, 1996. 1 videocassette (55 min.)
In an experimental amalgam of rap music, street poetry, documentary film, and dance, a gay African-American man expresses what it is like to be gay and black in the United States. Although he deals with social ostracism and fear of AIDS, he affirms the beauty and significance of the gay black man. AFR Video 426

Toni Morrison. Ill.: Home Vision, 1987. 1 videocassette (52 min.)
Toni Morrison discusses slavery and its legacy and the difficulties of writing about the painful subjects that occur in her novel Beloved. AFR Video 379

Toni Morrison A Writer's Work. Princeton, N.J.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1994. 1 videocassette (56 min.)
In this interview with Bill Moyers from the New York Public Library, Morrison discusses the characters in her work, the people in her life, the power of love, and how the invented world of fiction connects to life. AFR Video 487

Toni Morrison: Conversation with Toni Morrison. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1992. 1 videocassette (25 min.)
This video introduces one of the most widely acclaimed contemporary American writers, Toni Morrison. A leading figure in the movement for a new multicultural American literary canon, she explains that "American literature is incoherent without the contributions of African Americans." AFR Video 153

Toni Morrison: Uncensored. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1999. 1 videocassette (30 min.)
"Morrison candidly answers questions regarding how dhe became a writer, the pain of empathizing with her characters, the sensual nature of her novels, and how it felt to win the Nobel Prize"--container. AFR Video 463

2 Fast 2 Furious. Universal City, CA: Universal, 2003. 1 videodisc (107 min).
Now an ex-cop on the run, Brian, hooks into outlaw street racing. When the Feds strong-arm him back, Brian's no rules, win-or-die skills are unleashed against an international drug lord. With his velocity-addicted buddy riding shotgun, and a drop-dead-gorgeous undercover agent dialing up the heat ... it becomes a desperate race for survival and justice. AFR Videodisc 22.

Touki-Bouki, the Journey of the Hyena. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1993? 1 videocassette (85 min., 17 sec.)
`Touki Bouki' is the picaresque tale of Mory and Anta. Desperate to escape the raucous shantytown where they live, they dream of winning wealth and power in France. They lead us on an exhilirating chase through Dakar as they try gambling, stealing and prostitution to get the money for their passage. At the last moment, Mory bolts from the liner, suddenly aware that Western consumer culture is just another trap. AFR Video 230

Trading in Africans: The Dutch Outposts in West Africa. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, n.d. 1 videocassette (50 min.)
Narrative of the Dutch settlements in West Africa. Highlights the slave trade by the Dutch and others in the 17th-19th centuries. AFR Video 3

Training Day. Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video, 2002. 1 videodisc (122 min.)
Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke), a fresh-faced rookie in the Los Angeles Police Department, gets a chance to join the elite narcotics squad headed up by 13-year veteran Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington). Jake is to prove himself during a one-day ride-along. As the day wears on, it becomes increasingly clear that Detective Harris has blurred the line between right and wrong to an alarming degree, enforcing his own code of ethics and street justice. Eventually, Hoyt begins to suspect that, far from being groomed to join the squad, he is being set up to take the fall. AFR Videodisc 11

Trokosi: Wife of the Gods. New York, N.Y.: Cinema Guild, 199? 1 videocassette (25 min.)
Documents a system of providing young girls as servants/slaves to priests among the Ewe people of southeastern Ghana. These "inmates"--or wives of gods--must serve for an indefinite time as workers and wives to atone for family crimes that date as far back as to the 17th century. AFR Video 330

Trouble Man. Beverly Hills, CA: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2005.
1 videodisc (99 min.)
A private investigator known only as Mr. T is hired by two thugs to find out who’s stealing from their gambling operation. AFR Videodisc 119

Truck Turner. Santa Monica, CA: MGM Home Entertainment, 2001. 1 videodisc (91 min.)
Truck Turner and his partner Jerry are two tough, modern-day bounty hunters hot on the trail of a three-time loser and well-connected pimp who jumped bail. As they comb the underworld jungle for their prey, Truck’s trail of elimination leads him to Harvard Blue, the suave head of organized crime in the city. AFR Videodisc 77

Truth and Reconciliation: Toward a Just Society. 2000. 1 videocassette (77 min.)
At the Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellowship lecture, Desmond Tutu, Bishop of Johannesburg, South Africa, speaks out on human rights and the South African race problem. AFR Video 433

Tubali: Hausa Architecture of Northern Nigeria. New York: Ogbuide Corp., 1995. 1 videocassette (45 min.)
This video was photographed in Daura, Katsina, Kano, Shinkafi, Sokoto, Shanawa and Zaria, by Alhaji Yusufu Mohammed. Local builders, architects, and a museum curator talk about the hisory, building technology, social and religious aspects, and aesthetics. AFR Video 291

2-Pac 4-Ever. Trinity Home Entertainment, c2003. 1 videodisc (60 min). Tupac Shakur comes back to life in this in depth profile featuring behind the scenes footage and one on one interviews with the rapper in the months before his death. AFR Videodisc 38

Tupac: Resurrection. Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, [2004], c2003. 1 videodisc (113 min.). This documentary uses voice-overs, interviews, and actual tracks recorded by Tupac himself. The film explores his life, music, and his death from fatal gunshot wounds in 1996. Includes rare footage, home movies, private photographs, and excerpts from his personal poetry, journals, and letters. During the making of the film, MTV reached out to his fan base by requesting submissions of Tupac memorabilia to be used in the film. AFR Videodisc 39

Tupac Shakur: Before I Wake. Santa Monica, Calif. : Xenon Pictures, c2001.1 videodisc (104 min.). The events of Tupac Shakur's final tumultuous year, including his murder, are told through the eyes of the man who saw it all: Tupac's personal bodyguard, Frank Alexander. AFR Videodisc 40

Tupac Shakur/Thug Angel: Off the Cutting Room Floor. Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, c2002. 1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.). Over three hours of never-before-seen footage and interviews from the movie Thug Angel. AFR Videodisc 34

Tupac Shakur/Thug Angel: The Life of An Outlaw. Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, c2002. 1 videodisc (92 min.). This documentary explores Tupac, the soldier, whose career was deeply formed by his Black Panther heritage. The artist and entertainer who is, perhaps, the most prolific writer in the hip-hop music industry. Killed before he was able to realize his true and full potential. AFR Videodisc 33

Tupac VS. Santa Monica, CA : Xenon Pictures, c2002. 1 videodisc (70 min.). The most in-depth Tupac documentary ever, focusing on his early life, education, influences, radical roots and his personal philosophies. Features an exclusive 1995 videotaped interview. Tupac remains a controversial and misunderstood figure long after the shooting that ended his life in September of 1996. AFR Videodisc 36

The Tuskegee Airmen. New York, N.Y.: HBO Home Video, 2000. 1 videodisc (106 min.)
It is 1943 and the Germans are winning the Second World War as the U.S. suffers huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when Black flyers are not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, through the brutal demands of their training, to the perils of flying over nations at war, the men they call "The Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest mission of their lives--to prove to America that courage knows no color. Their success could earn them respect, save lives and help win a terrible war. Their failure could destroy more hopes and dreams than their own. AFR Videodisc 260

Ca Twiste a Poponguine = Rocking Popenguine. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1993. 1 videocassette (90 min.)
A comedy set during the last week before Christmas, 1964, in a remote beachside village, where the local teenagers are divided into rival cultural camps. AFR Video 315

Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela. Greenwood Lake, N.Y.: Chimpanzee Productions, 2005. 1 videodisc (73 min.)
"Confronted with the death of his stepfather, director Thomas Allen Harris embarks on a journey to understand the man who raised him, Pule Benjamin Leinaeng ("Lee") - an ANC foot-soldier who sacrificed his life for the freedom of his country. As part of the first wave of South African freedom fighters, Lee and his comrades left their homeland in 1960 to broadcast to the world the brutality of apartheid and to raise support for the African National Congress ("ANC") and its leaders, Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo. This film is an intimate tale about an African-American family, the anti-apartheid movement and the quest for reconciliation between a father and son."--IMDb.com AFR Videodisc 220

Two Trevors Go To Washington. Wash., D.C.: 50 years is Enough Network: Preamble Center [distributor], 2000.1 videocassette (34 min.)
An incisive and entertaining account of the April 16, 2000 International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings and protests in Washington, D.C. as experienced through the eyes of two opposing South Africans, both veterans of the anti-apartheid struggle, who differ strongly on economic issues. On the inside is South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, the champion of South Africa’s conservative economic policy introduced in 1996. On the streets: Johannesburg activist Trevor Ngwane who joined the protestors in the streets to call for immediate debt forgiveness and the closure of the international financial institutions. AFR Video 656