Query: Films shot in County Cork or Barbados or Documentary films about slavery in the United States
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
Unchained Memories
Hit for Six (film)
Blackbird (2018 film)
Island in the Sun (film)
The Tamarind Seed
Prince Among Slaves
Loyalties (1999 film)
Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad
Strength and Honour
Meeting David Wilson
Black Snake (film)
Unearthed and Understood
500 Years Later
Frederick Douglass and the White Negro
Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
Goodbye Uncle Tom
Evidence from documents: Unchained Memories: '''''Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives''''' is a 2003 American documentary film about the stories of former slaves interviewed during the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project and preserved in the WPA Slave Narrative Collection.
Hit for Six (film): '''''Hit for Six''''' is a 2007 Barbadian sports drama film
Blackbird (2018 film): Filming took place in County Cork, London and Barbados.
Island in the Sun (film): Barbados and Grenada were selected as the sites for the movie based on the 1955 novel by Alec Waugh.
The Tamarind Seed: ''The Tamarind Seed'' was filmed on location in Barbados, Belgravia (including Eaton Square) in London, and Paris.
Prince Among Slaves: '''''Prince Among Slaves''''' is a 2006 historical drama directed, written and produced by Andrea Kalin and narrated by Mos Def made for PBS by Unity Productions Foundation. The film, made in association with Spark Media and Duke Media, is based on the story of Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori, a prince from Guinea who was made a slave in the United States and freed 40 years later.
Based on a biography by Northern Virginia Community College history professor Terry Alford, ''Prince Among Slaves'' dramatizes Abdul-Rahman's African-Muslim-prince-turned-American-slave drama cycle with historic and scholastic commentary along the way.
Loyalties (1999 film): '''''Loyalties''''' is a 1999 Canadian documentary film directed by Lesley Ann Patten about two women—one white, one black—who discover that they are related due to the legacy of slavery in the United States. In 1995, Dr. Ruth Whitehead of the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History in Halifax met Black Canadian graduate student Carmelita Robertson, who happened to mention that her relatives came to Nova Scotia from South Carolina as Black Loyalists in the late 18th century. Whitehead, whose own family also came from South Carolina, realized that she recognized some of the names of Robertson's ancestors, and together the two women journey to Charleston, South Carolina to explore their shared past. The film also exposes strains in the personal relationship between the two women, with Whitehead descended from wealthy slave owners, and Robertson the descendant of their slaves.
Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad: '''''Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad''''' is a 1989 for-television documentary on the Underground Railroad.
Strength and Honour: It was shot in Cork, Ireland. Filming took place in the city and county including Kinsale, Rochestown, Passage West and the un-opened maternity ward of the Cork University Hospital as well as the new airport.
Meeting David Wilson: Documentary films: '''''Meeting David Wilson''''' is a 2008 American documentary film.
about slavery in the United States: It is a 90-minute video produced for initial presentation on the MSNBC cable channel. Its focus is the encounter between David A. Wilson, a black American filmmaker who grew up in Newark, New Jersey, and David B. Wilson, a descendant of a white American tobacco-planter who had owned some of the black Wilsons’ ancestors as slaves.
Black Snake (film): . Meyer's only attempt at the Blaxploitation genre, it was filmed in Panavision and was shot on location in Barbados.
Unearthed and Understood: '''''Unearthed and Understood''''' is a documentary produced by the President's Commission on Slavery and the University at the University of Virginia.
500 Years Later: Documentary films about slavery in the United States: ''500 Years Later'' studies the African diaspora and the impact of slavery throughout history, identifying key issues facing the world's black communities, including poor education, poverty, crime, and the way that such issues dehumanize and degrade black peoples. The film also gives insight into the struggles faced by continental Africans today, for instance in terms of poverty, disease, and corrupt governments.
Documentary films: '''''500 Years Later''''' ( '''') is a 2005 independent documentary film directed by Owen 'Alik Shahadah and written by M. K. Asante, Jr.
Frederick Douglass and the White Negro: '''''Frederick Douglass and the White Negro''''' is a documentary telling the story of ex-slave, abolitionist, writer and politician Frederick Douglass and his escape to Ireland from America in the 1840s.
Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North: '''''Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North''''' is a 2008 documentary film directed by Katrina Browne, Alla Kovgan, and Jude Ray.
The film focuses on the descendants of the DeWolf family, a prominent slave trading family who settled in Bristol, Rhode Island, who trafficked Africans from 1769 to 1820, and the legacy of the slave trade in the North of the United States. The film follows ten family members as they retrace the triangle trade starting at Linden Place in Bristol, Rhode Island, the hometown of the DeWolfs. The family has been prominent in local businesses and banking, as academics, in the local Episcopal and other institutions, and organizing the Bristol Fourth of July Parade. The film goes with the family to Ghana, where the slaves were purchased and where they meet with current residents, and to Cuba, where James DeWolf owned three sugar and coffee plantations in the 19th century.
Goodbye Uncle Tom: Documentary films: '''''Goodbye Uncle Tom''''' () is a 1971 Italian Mondo docudrama co-directed and co-written by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi with music by Riz Ortolani.
about slavery in the United States: The film is based on true events in which the filmmakers explore antebellum America, using period documents to examine in graphic detail the racist ideology and degrading conditions faced by Africans under slavery.