Films & Videos
Barefoot Gen: The Bombing of Hiroshima As Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Boy
DVD. By Geneon; directed by Mori Masaki. 1992. 170 min.
Barefoot Gen is a story about the devastating effects of war on everyday life.
The Children’s March
DVD. By Hudson and Houston. 2005. 40 minutes.
This Academy Award-winning documentary film tells the heroic story of the young people in Birmingham, Alabama, who brought segregation to its knees.
Race - The Power of an Illusion
DVD. By California Newsreel. 2003. Three episodes - 56 minutes each.
Race - The Power of an Illusion is a three-part documentary series that questions the very idea of race as biology, suggesting that a belief in race is no more sound than believing that the sun revolves around the earth.
Unlearning “Indian” Sterotypes
DVD. 1977 (Updated in 2008). Rethinking Schools and the Council on Interracial Books for Children.
Native American history through the eyes of Native American children.
Uprooted: Refugees of the Global Economy
DVD. Produced by National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. 2001.
Stories of three immigrants (from Bolivia, Haiti and the Philippines) to the U.S. and how global institutions and multi-national corporations erode people’s capacity to survive in their home countries.
Viva La Causa
DVD. Teaching Tolerance. 2008. 39 minutes.
A documentary film and teaching kit that focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights — the grape strike and boycott led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s.
