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List of Documentary Films by Category  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 

Documentary Films by Category

We do not currently have those movies in italics BUT would purchase or borrow them if you expressed intersest in using any one of them.
HISTORY

Slavery and the Making of America (4 x 55min, 2005)
Slave Catchers, Slave Resisters (95 min, 2005)
Unchained Memories: Slave Narratives (75 min, 2003)
Nat Turner: Troublesome Property (55 min, 2004)
The Underground Railroad (95 min, 1999)
Reconstruction – The Second Civil War (2x90 min, 2004)
Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History (50 min, 2005)
An Unlikely Friendship (30 min, 2004)
The Promised Land  (1995):
--Vol 1: Take me to Chicago (90 min)
--Vol 2: A Dream Deferred (90 min)
--Vol 3: Strong Men Keep A-comin’ On (45 min)
History of Black Achievement (8x28 min, 2005)
Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker (45 min, 1981)
The Black Press: Soldiers without Swords (98 min, 1989)
African American Lives (4x55 min, 2005)
Shared History (56 min, 2006)
Benjamin Davis and the Tuskegee Airmen (30 min)
           and The 54th Massachusetts (25min)
A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day (55 min, 2007)

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Eyes on the Prize I (6 x 60 min, 1987)
Vol. 1: AWAKENINGS (1954-1956)
Vol. 2: FIGHTING BACK (1957-1962)
Vol. 3: AIN’T SCARED OF YOUR JAILS (1960-1961)
Vol. 4: NO EASY WALK (1962-1966)
Vol. 5: MISSISSIPPI: IS THIS AMERICA? (1962-1964)
Vol. 6: BRIDGE TO FREEDOM (1965)
Eyes on the Prize II (6 x 60 min, 1987)
Vol. 7: THE TIME HAS COME (1964-1966)
Vol. 8: TWO SOCIETIES (1965-1968)
Vol. 9: POWER! (1966-1968)
Vol. 10: THE PROMISED LAND (1967-1968)
Vol. 11: AIN'T GONNA SHUFFLE NO MORE (1964-1972)
Vol. 12: A NATION OF LAW? (1968-1971)
Vol. 13: THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM (1974-80)
Vol. 14: BACK TO THE MOVEMENT (1969-mid 1980's)

Mississippi, America (60 min, 1995)
The Murder of Emmett Till (53 min, 2003)
With all Deliberate Speed (120 min, 2004)
Standing on my Sisters Shoulders (60 min, 2002)
4 Little Girls (120 min, 1997)
Freedom on my Mind (110 min, 1994)
Freedom Summer (45 min, 2006)
Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker (45 min, 1981)
The Long Walk To Freedom (30 min, 2004)
Malcolm X's 1964 Harlem speech: Housing and Self-Defense
A Time for Justice (38 min, 2004)
February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four (55min, 2005)
July 64: Race Riots in Rochester, NY (55 min, 2005)
Sisters of Selma (55 min, 2007)
Home of the Brave—Viola Liuzzo (60 min, 2004)
Decisions that shook the World: LBJ and the CRM (60 min, 2004)

LABOR AND ORGANIZING

Struggles in Steel (58 min, 1996)  
Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle (58 min, 1983)
The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers’ Struggle (116 min, 1996)
You Got to Move (87 min, 1985)
Briars in the Cotton Patch—The Story of Koinonia Farm (60 min, 2005)
 
THE SIXTIES

The War at Home (100 min, 1979)
Berkeley in the Sixties (117 min, 1990)
Rebels with a Cause (109 min, 2000)
The Sixties – The Years That Shaped a Generation (115 min, 2005)
All Power to the People (115 min, 1995)
The FBI’s War on Black America (50 min, 1989)
The Battle of Algiers (125 min, 1965)

BIOGRAPHY

Frederick Douglass Biography (55 min, 2005)
Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All (50 min, 2004)
Citizen King (156 min, 1998)
Martin Luther King: The Man and the Dream (55 min, 2004)
Fannie Lou Hamer: Courage and Faith (30 min, 2006)
Negroes with Guns: Robert F. Williams and Black Power (53 min, 2005)
Malcolm X: Make it Plain (145 min, 1994)
Malcolm X Biography (60 min, 1987)
Brother Outsider: Bayard Rustin (83 min, 2002,)
Biographies: Mae Carter, Irene Morgan,  Ruby and Ossie Davis, Bill Russel (40 min, 2007)
Chisholm 72: Unbought and Unbossed (80 min, 2005)
Wilder: An American First (60 min, 2005)
Forgotten Genius (2007, 110 min)
Susan B. Anthony (45min)
Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker (45 min, 1981)

ANALYSIS

A Force More Powerful (6 x 30 min, 2000)
Race: The Power of an Illusion (3 x 55 min, 2003)
Episode 1: The Difference Between Us
Episode 2: The Story We Tell
Episode 3: The House We Live In
This Far By Faith (6 x 60 min, 2004)
            Episode 1: There is a River
            Episode 2: God is a Negro
            Episode 3: Guide My Feet
            Episode 4: Freedom Faith
            Episode 5: Inheritors of the Faith
            Episode 6: Rise Up and Call Their Names
America Beyond the Color Line (4x58 min, 2005)
JFK, RFK, MLK Conference Panels (2x90 min, 2006)
In Depth: Taylor Branch Discussing
Civil Rights (180 min, 2006)
Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later (70 min, 2007)
Road to Mississippi: Reclaiming Our History (30 min, 2007)

THE ARTS

We Shall Overcome (58 min, 1990)
Strange Fruit (57 min, 2002)
Harlem Renaissance: The Music and Rhythms that Started a Cultural Revolution (75 min, 2004)
Get up Stand up: The Story of Pop and Protest (120 min, 2005)
Scandalize my Name: Stories from the Blacklist (54 min, 2004)
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper (60 min, 2000)
Looking For Langston (45 min, 1988)
James Baldwin Biography (45 min, 2004)
The Songs are Free: Bernice Johnson Reagon and Bill Moyers (58 min, 1995)
Ella Fitzgerald: Something to Live for (128 min, 1999)
Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life (90 min, 2007)
The Weavers (75 min, 1982)
Bob Dylan: No Direction Home (207 min, 2005)
New Orleans Black Indians: A Case Study in the Arts (30 min, 1994)
Road to Mississippi: Reclaiming Our History (30 min, 2007)

CONTEMPORARY

Voting in America (ca 60 min, 2004)
Granny D Goes to Washington (30 min, 2006)
Howard Zinn—You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train (78 min, 2004)
Noam Chomsky—Manufacturing Consent (167 min, 1993)
Frontline: The Betrayal of Democracy (120 min, 1992)
Frontline: The Dark Side (90 min, 2006)
The Corporation (145 min, 2004)
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election (90 min, 2004)
Unconstitutional: The War on our Civil Liberties (66 min, 2004)
Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later (70 min, 2007)
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism (114min, 2004)
Hoop Dreams (171 min, 1994)
Tom Brokaw Reports: Separate and Unequal (55 min, 2006)
A Southern Town (55 min, 2004)
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem  in Four Acts (240 min, 2006)
American Experience: New Orleans (110 min, 2007)
Bastards of the Party (100 min, 2006)
Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (60 min, 2007))
Girl Trouble: Three Girls in the SF Juvenile Justice System (60 min, 2006)
Food Justice
An Inconvenient Truth (90 min, 2006)
March of the Penguins (90 min, 2006)