VIDEO, DOCUMENTARY, & FILM LIST This is NOT an exhaustive list. You MAY choose other films not represented here.
RACE MOVIES
Birth of a Nation
Birthright;
Bamboozled;
Ethnic Notions;
To Kill A Mockingbird;
A Time To Kill;
Amistad
Glory
Zulu
Smoke Signals
Heavens Gate
Inherit the Wind;
A Man Called Horse;
Jeremiah Johnson;
Dances With Wolves;
Schindler's List
X*
Black Panthers
Area 9;
Sankofa
Rosewood
Black Boy
American History X
The Great Debaters
Kite Runner
GENDER IN FILM
Water For Chocolate;
Philadelphia;
1/8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHSH-NpCQOw
2/8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkpHalgTqpw
3/8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBP8QDlm6OA
4/8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjbxL_v2DPk
5/8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIqXkwxzUB4
6/8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr90d0ZcrCU
7/8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYJYW_9mFVg
8/8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHYuhwnlTZs
Brokeback Mountain;
Thelma and Louise;
Bonnie and Clyde;
The Wild Bunch;
Midwifes Tale
Far And Away
Legends of the Fall
Godfather
Barbie Nation
Heaven & Earth
The Joy Luck Club
Get On The Bus
Waiting to Exhale
Jungle Fever
The Vagina Monologues*
Midnight Cowboy
CLASS IN CINEMA
Forrest Gump;
Ben Hur
Spartacus (Gladiator)
Henry V (the fifth)
1492
Blackrobe
Last of the Mohicans*
The Patriot
El Norte
The Help
POLITICAL FILMS
Wizard of OZ;
All Quiet on the Western Front;
Catch 22;
Green Berets;
Platoon
Deer Hunter;
Conspiracy (+ JFK “chunk”)
Failsafe
Patton;
The Kingdom
When We Were Kings
Full Metal Jacket
Boys From Company “C”
3 Kings
Wag The Dog
SOCIAL JUSTICE FILMS
A Clockwork Orange
Slumdog Millionaire
GUN
Little Big Man
2001 + 2010 Space Odyssey
Grapes of Wrath;
Dr. Strangelove
EDUCATIONAL FILMS
Michael Moore films such as Fahrenheit 911; Anti-Moore films such as Fahren-hype 911
And, a Preview of: the Three Deadliest Words in the World: It's A Girl
The Way West
Tulsa
A Biography in Four Voices*
A. P. Randolph*
Marcus Garvey*
Atomic Café
SOA: School Of Assassins
Mumia: The Case for Justice
Zapatista: A Big Noise*
Trading Democracy
Life and Debt
Collapse
Fog Of War
FOOD INC
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Why We Fight
The Corporation
The Money Masters
Death By Sanctions
POPULAR MOVIES
Citizen Kane;
Taxi Driver;
Red Dawn and the Zombie Apocalypse;
The Wild Bunch;
Wyatt Earp
Tombstone*
Unforgiven
Gone With The Wind;
The Bible;
The Greatest Story Ever Told;
The Ten Commandments;
Ben Hur;
Saving Private Ryan
How the West was Won
“Wayne-a-thon” versus “Clint-a-thon”;
GENERAL HISTORY CLASS ONLINE VIDEO LIST
Early Americans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itCWu-m-23E
Aztlan - Engineering Empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZyB47qGXoI
Columbian Exchange – Crash Course (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQPA5oNpfM4)
Slavery – (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnV_MTFEGIY) & Middle Passage (from the movie Amistad)
Africans in the Americas (you can follow the rest of the series on youtube)
Bacon's Rebellion
French & Indian War
Crash Course, The American Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EiSymRrKI4
- HAITI
Crash Course: Constitution - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO7FQsCcbD8
Teaching Exercise: The U.S. Constitution
A Midwife's Tale - Martha Ballard & Laural Thatcher Ulrich
Jefferson's Blood - Sally Hemings
Wikipedia on Women in America - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_women_in_the_United_States
& Sally Hemmings (professional video) and Sally Hemmings (a student video)
“RECONSTRUCTION” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/
History in film: POPULAR HISTORY versus DOCUMENTARY- see one of these films for comparison to history and to the film RED CRY! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfvAqCHpXgA
Trailer: Dances With Wolves
Last Of The Mohicans
Do a VIDEOGRAPHY
How does history in film compare with reality?
Gilded Age - Robber Barons or - Captains of Industry?
Gilded Age http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/gilded/jb_gilded_subj.html
and http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/gildedage.html
How The Other Half Still Lives
The American Way Of Poverty (a video in 6 parts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX96OY1ygCw)
Haymarket Anarchists
American Federation of Labor - AFL (Samuel Gompers)
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters - BSCP (A. P. Randolph)
Eugene V. Debs
International Workers of the World - IWW (Wobblies)
The Corporation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMNZXV7jOG0
Without Sanctuary: Black rights in Jim Crow America http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/movie1.html
A War For Your Soul: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gwAO-AnVgQ
The Night Tulsa Burned (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD3aw4-RJpE)
Black Americans: An Internal Colony?
Slavery By Any Other Name
Ethnic Notions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHMo64KSApQ
Unforgivable Blackness - Jack Johnson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnlDXM889-s
Buffalo Soldiers - Charles Young
Marcus Garvey - UNIA & Garvey-ism
Carter G. Woodson - "Negro History" ASALH - Black History Month
Harlem - Blacks in WW I
Hellfighters!
James Reese Europe
Blacks in the U.S. Military
Harlem Renaissance 1
Harlem Renaissance 2
White Privilege - Peggy McIntosh
White Privilege - Gina Corcoran
"Old Man River"
Paul Robeson
Ethnic Notions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHMo64KSApQ
Birth of a Nation
Wpa African Americans in the depression https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Dd-NmdUDo
Article – Depression, race 1931-1945 http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/depwwii/race/
Depression, women African Americans & immigrants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbN0FSt4x9M
Student video blacks in the depression https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRD6IYPBX6k
#2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl-QVWvylxw
Scottsboro Boys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RixDZhdfZJI
Scottsboro lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmsYLmqx3wg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsboro_Boys
Marion, Billie Holiday, strange fruit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb7DG8SpYds
WWII Black Service
Charles H. Houston
Black guy takes his White girlfriend to barbershop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynYwTU7z6BI
Civil Rights!
THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT
VOTING RIGHTS ACT OVERVIEW
Institutionalized Racism
10 Signs of Institutional Racism
“Blacksploitation”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voaPZ1zfpjc
Blacks-ploitation
The “N” Word… Again! And...from FOX! Nigga, Nigga, Nigga
Federal Spending Priorities since 1981 AND Your Tax Dollars at Work!
COST OF WAR COUNTER