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First Light

Film. By Upstander Project. 2015. 13 min. Story of forced removal of Native American children in Maine sent to boarding schools.

Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1

Film. By Adam Jonas Horowitz. 2012. 60 and 87 min. HIstory of the U.S. government's testing of nuclear weapons and fallout on the people of the Marshall Islands.

Slavery by Another Name (Film) | Zinn Education Project: Teaching People's History

Film. By Sam Pollard, Catherine Allan, Douglas Blackmon and Sheila Curran Bernard. 2012. 90 min. Reveals the interlocking forces in the South and the North that enabled “neoslavery” post-Emancipation Proclamation.

This Changes Everything (Film)

Film. By Avi Lewis. 2015. 90 min. Seven portraits of communities on the front lines of the climate crisis.

Counter Histories

Film. Five short films that document the civil disobedience staged at segregated lunch counters in the 1950s and 60s.

The Columbus Controversy: Challenging How History Is Written

Film. Written, directed, and produced by Nick Kaufman. 1992. 23 minutes. Contrasting views and scenes from the classroom on teaching about Columbus.

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

Film. By Stanley Nelson. 2015. 1 hour 55 min. Documentary on the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.

Selma: The Bridge to the Ballot

Film. Produced by Bill Brummel. Learning for Justice. 2015. 40 min. Documentary about the students and teachers of Selma, Alabama who fought for voting rights.

Boycott

Film. By Clark Johnson. 2001. 120 min. Dramatic account of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The FBI’s War on Black America

Film. By Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller. 1990. 47 min. Documentary of people targeted by the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) in the 1960s and 70s.

Malcolm X: Make It Plain

Film. Written by Steve Fayer and Orlando Bagwell. 1994. 2 hours, 18 min. Documentary film on the life and words of Malcolm X/ El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.

Freedom Summer

Film. Written, produced, and directed by Stanley Nelson. 2014. 120 minutes. Documentary about 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi.

The Untold History of the United States DVD

Film. By Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick. 2014. 4 discs – 796 min. TV series that re-examines various under-reported events of U.S. history since World War II.

Maestra (Teacher)

Film. By Catherine Murphy. 2013. 32 min. Documentary about the successful 1961 literacy campaign in Cuba.

Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek

Film. By Leah Mahan. 2013. 60 min. Documentary about the impact of “development” on a historically African American community in Gulfport, Mississippi.

Have You Heard From Johannesburg

Film. Directed by Connie Field. 2007. 89 minutes. Episode that covers the anti-apartheid movement in the U.S. to overturn apartheid in South Africa.

Oh Freedom After While: The Missouri Sharecropper Protest of 1939

Film. Directed Steven John Ross and written by Candace O'Connor. 1999. 56 minutes. Archival footage, photographs, and first-hand accounts of sharecroppers---Black and white---organizing in Missouri.

Alcatraz Is Not an Island

Film. By James M. Fortier. 2001. 60 min. Documentary on a small group of Native American students and “Urban Indians” who occupied Alcatraz Island in November 1969, and how it forever changed the way Native Americans viewed themselves, their culture and their sovereign rights.