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1950s, North Carolina. Martha 'Sonny' Creech, her two brothers, and her parents work hard on their cotton farm, but only Sonny loves the rich, dark earth the way her father does. When a tragic accident claims his life, her stricken family struggles to fend off ruin. Frank Fowler, their rich, reclusive neighbor, offers to help finance that year's cotton crop, but Sonny is sure the man has ulterior motives. Her own talent for divining water won't be...
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Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers, and two very dangerous men came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke's world. A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden passions. A fatherless baby is...
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On assignment for "Fortune" magazine in 1936, Agee and Evans set out to explore the plight of sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Published for the first time, Agee's original dispatch (accompanied by 25 of Evans' historic photos) is an unsparing record of three families at a desperate time.
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It is the spring of 1942, and war ravages Europe and the Pacific Theaters. With her son Charlie, Ruth Scarsdale returns to the cotton farm of her parents while her husband Chester deploys to the South Pacific theater. The story unfolding in this historic telling is one that highlights the fear, despair, tension, estrangement, and emotional upheaval that comes to bear on Ruth, Chester, Charlie, and on those around them. The story told is also one of...
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10-year-old Luke lives with his parents and grandparents in Arkansas during the Korean War. To pick the cotton in their fields, they must hire "hill people" and Mexicans. Hank is a "hill person" who doesn't take kindly to people looking down on him. Luke witnesses a fight that Hank gets into that causes the death of another person. With better times ahead to look forward to, the town gets excited about a new invention - television.
6) Hallelujah
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Infused with spirituals, folk songs, blues, and jazz, Hallelujah follows the fortunes of Zeke, a poor cotton farmer. Love, loss, passion, redemption, make this cinematic milestone the first all-black feature from a major studio.
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Walker, Texas ranger standoff: During a tip to Dallas, the Mexican presidential candidate becomes the target of an assassination attempt. Despite the life-threatening risks involved, he refuses to cancel any of his pending appearances, making Walker and Trivette's job of protecting him all the more difficult - and dangerous.
Places in the heart: In the 1930s rural south, a widow and her family try to run their cotton farm with the help of a disparate...
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Indagar sobre el origen personal es abrir una puerta a muchas preguntas, a silencios y respuestas impensadas que aveces terminan por ser un revés de la memoria. En Autobiografía del algodón, Cristina Rivera Garza sigue con curiosidad y asombro los pasos de aquellos hombres y mujeres que habitan su pasado familiar, obreros, campesinos que trabajaron la tierra que ahora conforma la frontera entre Tamaulipas y Texas, una región que alcanzó un alto...
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