Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Something of value [videorecording] / [presented by] MGM ; an MGM release ; produced by Pandro S. Berman ; screenplay by Richard Brooks ; directed by Richard Brooks.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2009]

Description:

1 videodisc (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

In the British East Africa country of Kenya, former childhood playmates Peter McKenzie and Kimani have maintained their deep friendship, even though they have a difference in race, class and tradition. Then the bloody Mau Mau spread violence and terror in an effort to sweep the British from the land, the uprising destroys their magnificent homeland. The men discover that even the strongest bond may be stronger than the beat of the drums or the crack of rifles and the cry for freedom.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Male friendship -- Kenya -- Drama.

Government, Resistance to -- Kenya -- Drama.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Feature films.

Kenya -- Race relations -- Drama.

Kenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 -- Drama.

Other Author:

Berman, Pandro S., 1905-1996.

Brooks, Richard, 1912-1992.