VIDEOS/DVDs BEGINNING WITH LETTER V
La Vie est Belle. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, 1991. 1 videocassette (83 min.)La Vie est belle tells the rags to riches story of Kourou, a poor rural musician who realizes that to succeed in today's music world he must go to the city and break into radio and television. In Kinshasa he uses his wit and talent to win a beautiful wife, trick his greedy boss and succeed in singing his "theme song" on national television. Although the film is primarily entertainment, it reveals much about class divisions, male-female relations, the desires of the urban poor, and the economic and social problems confronting rural immigrants to the cities of Zaire. AFR Video 133
Visions of the Spirit. New York: Women Make Movies, 1989. 1 videocassette (58 min.)
This film explores the roots of Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker's Southern Black feminist consciousness through in-depth conversations with the writer and members of her family. AFR Video 84
Voices from Robben Island. Johannesburg: Schadeberg Movie Co., 1994. 1 videocassette (90 min.)
The film looks at the 400 year history of Robben Island from the seventeenth century to present day. Robben Island began as a place of banishment for social outcasts and in the nineteen sixties was turned into a high security prison for political prisoners who opposed the Apartheid regime. AFR Video 164
Voices of the Orishas. Berkeley, CA: The Center, [200-], 1993. 1 videodisc (38 min.)
An ethnographic documentary that demonstrates the survival and strength of the Yoruba cultural and religious heritage in the contemporary life of Caribbean African-Hispanics. Documents a ritual ceremony that features dancing, singing, praying and drum beating, invoking the twenty-two Orishas, or deities of the Yoruba religion. AFR Videodisc 63
Voices of the Orishas. Berkeley, CA: University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning, 1993. 37 min.
This video explains Orisha religion in Cuba by songs and dances, and peoples' opinion. AFR Video 205
The Voyage of La Amistad: A Quest for Freedom. Oak Forest, Ill.: MPI Home Video, 1998. 1 videocassette (70 min.)
Chronicle of the story of the abducted Africans and their battles for freedom, first on the Amistad and then as they stood trial in a strange land, taking their case all the way to the Supreme Court with various abolitionists and former president John Quincy Adams leading the way. AFR Video 513
