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Leroy
A gently humorous look at otherness and xenophobia in modern day German with this tale of a black Berlin teen named Leroy who rediscovers his roots after falling for a pretty white girl and meeting her racist family.
The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story
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John Bach Alexander Graham Bell
Ian Bannen Melville
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Vanessa Vaughan 
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