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BLACKS IN EUROPE - 15th to 18th Centuries
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Two documentaries that explore the life of black people in Europe. GURUMBÉ: AFRO-ANDALUSIAN MEMORIES is a documentary that explores the contribution of Africans to Spain from the 15th to the 18th centuries.THE BLACK MOZART IN CUBA celebrates the The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a remarkable man who lived in France in the...
Afro-Cuba: Yesterday & Today - 2 disc set
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Two exciting, colorful films spotlight the African roots of Cuba's culture by focusing on two legendary artists -- Rumbero Papa Montero and Filmmaker Sara Gomez -- in this unique box set. THE LAST RUMBA OF PAPA MONTERO / LA ULTIMA RUMBA DE PAPA MONTERO Get ready to rumba! The life...
Mama Africa: Miriam Makeba! DVD with bonus short Aces
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Watch this movie ON VOD Miriam Makeba was one of the first African musicians who won international stardom and whose music was always anchored in her traditional South African roots. Miriam Makeba was forced into exile in 1959. She sang for John F. Kennedy, performed with Harry Belafonte and Nina...
Youssou N'Dour & Sotigui Kouyate: African Storytellers
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Watch this movie ON VOD Two African Griots connect Africa and the World: Youssou N’Dour in Return to Gorée by Pierre-Yves Borgeau, Sotigui Kouyaté in Names Live Nowhere by Dominique Loreau. DVD also includes Youssou N’Dour’s live concert performance on Gorée Island. RETURN TO GOREE Film and Concert A...
ADios Momo / Good-Bye Momo + Candombe, Black Culture in Uruguay
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Obdulio, an 11-year-old Afro-Uruguayan boy, can neither read nor write and lives with his sisters and grandmother and helps support them by selling newspapers - One evening, he discovers that the night watchman at the newspaper is a magical Maestro, who introduces him to the power of literacy and the...
Afro-Brazilian Leaders - Abdias do Nascimento and Natal da Portela
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NATAL DA PORTELA Revealing films about two very important Afro-Brazilian figures:* Abdias do Nascimento (March 14, 1914 – May 23, 2011) was an outspoken and vibrant defender of Afro-Brazilian civil rights.* Natalino José do Nacimento, better known as Natal Da Portela (July 31, 1905- April 5, 1975) was one of...
Jamaican Vibrations: The Story of Lovers Rock & The Journey of the Lion
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Experience the rich heritage and vibrant rhythms of Jamaica with the double DVD: JAMAICAN VIBRATIONS! THE STORY OF LOVERS ROCK explores the British reggae genre that blended romance with reggae rhythms and impacted British pop culture. THE JOURNEY OF THE LION follows Brother Howie, a Jamaican Rastafarian, on his quest...
Foreign Body & Stambali
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DOUBLE DVD - SPOTLIGHT ON TUNISIA - In FOREIGN BODY, a young Tunisian woman arrives illegally in France following her escape from Tunisia’s mounting Islamist fundamentalism. In Tunisia, the history of STAMBALI goes back to the arrival of the first Africans taken as slaves from Mali, Timbuktu specifically... FOREIGN BODYDIRECTED...
100% Arabica
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The joyous and vibrant sound of rai - a centuries-old Algerian folk music known for its often racy and politically charged lyric, and influenced over the years by flamenco, jazz and, most recently rap-gorgeously suffuse 100% Arabica’s culture-clash story.In a housing project located on the outskirts of Paris renamed "100%...