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Newsreel Classics
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| Ten essential Newsreel classics that pioneered new thinking, filmmaking or teaching, and set the standard for future films on related topics. |
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RACE - THE POWER OF AN ILLUSION
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VHS and DVD, 3 episodes - 56 minutes each, 2003, 
Facilitator Guide Available |
| An eye-opening three-part series confronting our myths and misconceptions about race through the distinct lenses of science, history and social institutions. MORE... |
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THE RISE AND FALL OF JIM CROW
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| DVD, 4 episodes - 56 minutes each, 2002, |
| Emancipation ended slavery but only to replace it an American form of apartheid, euphemistically known as Jim Crow, used to keep African Americans as second class citizens. This four-part series constitutes a major cinematic achievement covering the years between Reconstruction and Civil Rights. MORE... |
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THE COMPLETE BLUE EYED
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DVD, 3 hours 30 minutes (3 versions), 1996
Facilitator Guide Available |
| Jane Elliott has described Blue Eyed as the "definitive" and "most powerful" introduction to her unique "blue eyed/brown eyed" exercise. Now all three versions of this powerful documentary are available on one DVD or as a VHS set. MORE... |
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ETHNIC NOTIONS
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| DVD, 56 minutes, 1987 |
| Scholars shed light on the origins and consequences of anti-Black stereotypes in popular culture from the Antebellum period to the Civil Rights era. MORE... |
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LONG NIGHT'S JOURNEY INTO DAY
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VHS and DVD, 94 minutes, 2000
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| A documentary of South Africa's quest for restorative justice following four cases that come before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). MORE... |
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SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL
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| DVD and 35mm, 91 minutes, 2005 |
| In 1994 over 800,000 men, women and children were massacred in Rwanda. Canadian General Roméo Dallaire, head of the UN peacekeeping mission, pleaded unsuccessfully for reinforcements to help stop the genocide. 10 years later he returns to Rwanda, reflects on his inability to convince the UN and the Clinton administration to intervene and how the world community could prevent a similar occurrence in another part of the world. MORE... |
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STRANGE FRUIT
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| DVD and 35mm, 57 minutes, 2002, |
| The story behind Billie Holiday's signature song examines the history of lynching, and the interplay of race, labor and the left, and popular culture as forces that would give rise to the Civil Rights Movement. MORE... |
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THE ROAD TO BROWN
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| VHS and DVD, 56 minutes, 1990 |
| The history of segregation sanctioned by the 1898 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, and the visionary legal campaign against it that led to the triumph of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. MORE... |
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FREEDOM ON MY MIND
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| VHS and DVD, 110 minutes, 1994 |
| This documentary reconstructs the story of the Mississippi freedom movement of the early 1960s and the voter registration drives, which led to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. MORE... |
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BLACK IS...BLACK AIN'T
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DVD, 87 minutes, 1995, closed captioned in VHS only
Facilitator Guide Available |
| Marlon Riggs's final film debates Black identity, white critiques, sexism, patriarchy, homophobia, colorism and cultural nationalism. MORE... |
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