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10,000 Black Men Named George

Film. By Robert Townsend. 2002. 89 minutes. Docudrama about A. Philip Randolph and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first Black labor union in the United States.

Film. By Barbara Sonneborn. 1998. 72 minutes. Teaching Guide by Bill Bigelow. Chapter from A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. A profound documentary on the impact of war, with a teaching guide and the chapter of A People's History of the United States on the Vietnam War, "Impossible Victory."

Teaching Activity by Bill Bigelow

We Shall Remain (Film) | Zinn Education Project: Teaching People's History

We Shall Remain: America Through Native Eyes

Film. 2009. 450 minutes. Three hundred years of Native American history.

Bus Riders Union

Film. Haskell Wexler. 2000. 86 minutes. The Los Angeles Bus Riders Union's triumphant struggle to win better service.

Echando Raices/Taking Root

Film. By Rachael Kamel/JT Takagi. 2002. 60 min. The struggles of immigrants through the personal stories of families in communities in California, Texas, and Iowa.

The Fight in the Fields: César Chávez and the Farmworkers’ Struggle

Film. Ray Telles and Rick Tejada-Flores. 1997. 116 min. A documentary on the farmworker movement told by the organizers and farmworkers themselves.

Bread and Roses

Film. By Ken Loach. 2001. 106 min. A compelling, fictionalized account of an actual labor campaign in Los Angeles.

Salt of the Earth

Film. By Herbert Biberman. 1954. 94 minutes. This classic, powerful film about a miners strike in New Mexico can be used to teach about the intersection of class, race, national origin, and gender.

Maquilapolis (City of Factories)

Film. Directed and produced by Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre. 2006. 68 minutes. The impact of globalization as told through the lives of the women who experience it in Tijuana, Mexico.

Freedom Riders

Film. Written, produced, and directed by Stanley Nelson. 2011. 120 minutes. A first-hand look at the 1961 rides from the Freedom Riders themselves and others who were there.

The People Speak (Film) | Zinn Education Project: Teaching People's History

The People Speak – Extended Edition – DVD

Film. Directed by Howard Zinn, Chris Moore, and Anthony Arnove. 2009. 110 minutes. Dramatic readings and performances based on Voices of a People's History and A People's History of the United States.

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

Film. By Kristy Andersen. 2008. 84 minutes. Documentary about the life, literature, and research of Zora Neale Hurston.

Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy

Film and website. Produced by Mary Becker and Renée Bergan. Written and narrated by Edwidge Danticat. 2009. 50 minutes. Documentary about Haiti and global economics told through the lives of five women.

Not Just a Game: Power, Politics & American Sports

Film. By Dave Zirin and Jeremy Earp. 2010. 62 minutes. A documentary based on the bestselling book A People's History of Sports in the United States, Zirin demonstrates that American sports have long been at the center of some of the major political debates and struggles of our time. For 6th grade to adult.

Teaching Activity by Dave Zirin

Conscience and the Constitution

Film. By Frank Abe. 2000. 57 minutes. In World War II, 63 Japanese Americans refused to be drafted from a U.S. concentration camp.

Chisholm ’72 – Unbought and Unbossed

Film. By Shola Lynch. 2004. 76 min. Documentary about Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm and her campaign to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in 1972.

Most Dangerous Man in American (Film) | Zinn Education Project

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

Film. By Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith. 2009. 94 minutes. The riveting story of how a Pentagon official risks life in prison by leaking 7,000 pages of a top secret report to the New York Times to help stop the Vietnam War.

The Road to Brown

Film. By William Elwood. 1990. 56 min. The little known story of Charles Hamilton Houston who paved the road to Brown v. Board.

Unlearning “Indian” Stereotypes

Slideshow on 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.

Hearts and Minds

Film. Directed by Peter Davis. 1974. 112 min. Documentary about the Vietnam War.

Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation

Film. By Na Maka o ka `Aina. 1993. 58 min. A comprehensive documentary that focuses on the events surrounding the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893.

Barefoot Gen: The Bombing of Hiroshima As Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Boy

Film. By Geneon; directed by Mori Masaki. 1992. 170 min. A story about the devastating effects of war on everyday life.

Mighty Times: The Children’s March

Film. By Hudson and Houston. Learning for Justice. 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.

The Corporation

Film. By Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, and Joel Bakan. 2004. 145 minutes. This award-winning documentary examines the nature, evolution, impacts, and future of the modern business corporation and the increasing role it plays in society and our everyday lives.

Earth and the American Dream

Film. By Bill Couturie. 1993. 90 minutes. U.S. history from the standpoint of the earth.