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2) Beloved
Series
Baruch video volume DVD 1777
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beloved: On a journey to find freedom, Sethe is confronted by the secrets that have haunted her for years. Then, an old friend from out of her past reenters her life. With his help, Sethe may finally be able to rediscover who she is and regain her lost sense of hope.
Their eyes were watching God: A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the mores...
Language
English
Description
This program examines the life of author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. The film follows Hurston, best known for her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, to the subtropical paradise that shaped her childhood and her life's work - where she returned again and again for inspiration and solace. This documentary tells her story through the people who knew her and the places and events that she brought to the world through her writing.
Language
English
Description
Flamboyant and unpredictable, writer Zora Neale Hurston was a pioneering anthropologist, celebrated novelist, and noted intellectual, conversational to the end. The author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, she traveled coast-to-coast collecting Black folk culture. The acclaimed film uses Hurston's film footage and weaves a reenactment of an actual 1943 radio interview with Hurston, played by Kim Brockington.
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