Title: Are You Black, White, or What?
Format: Video
Notes: A WHYY production WHYY Producer Lillian Paulmier is African American. Her husband is of Italian French descent. When their son, Beau, was born two years ago, a nurse asked: "What color is he, black or white? You have to pick one.

Title: Family Name
Format: Video
Notes: As a child growing up in Durham, North Carolina, Macky Alston never questioned why all the other Alstons in his elementary school were black. Now, after 25 years, he has gone back to unravel the mystery.

Title: Malcolm X
Format: Video
Notes: Directed by Spike Lee

Title: Malcolm X
Format: DVD
Notes: Directed by Spike Lee

Title: Mississippi Masala
Format: Video
Notes: Denzel Washington stars as Demetrius, who becomes involved in a romantic relationship with an Indian woman, Mina, much to the chagrin of her father - he believes his daughter is above such a connection. USA. Dir. by Mira Nair. Available from Samuel Goldwyn Company.

Title: Secrets & Lies
Format: Video
Notes: The focus is on family and identity in this story of an adopted upperclass black Londoner who seeks out her birth mother, who - surprisingly - turns out to be a white factory worker. When the family meets, many difficult questions and issues are raised. France. Dir. by Mike Leigh. Available from October Films.

Title: Strange Fruit
Format: Video
Notes: While many know the outstanding performance of the classic protest song "Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday, not as many know it was originally written by New York schoolteacher Abel Meeropol under the pseudonym of Lewis Allan as a brooding reflection on a photograph of a Southern lynching. Filmmaker Joel Katz combines Holidays performance with recollections by Pete Seeger, Amiri Baraka, C. T. Vivian, Milt Gabler and others in this study of art, politics and civil rights history.

Title: The Joy Luck Club
Format: Video
Notes: Film follows the powerful stories of four Chinese women and the sacrifices made and struggles they endured for their families. USA. Dir. by Wayne Wang. Available from Buena Vista Pictures.