Documentaries on the Civil Rights Movement
Title: L.B.J.: the last interview videorecording
Imprint: New York : Released by Carousel Films, 1973.
Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (43 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in.
Summary: Presents an interview with Lyndon Baines Johnson as he discussed his commitment and accomplishments regarding the civil rights movement.
E847.L15Title: The Struggle for racial equality: the civil rights movement, 1948-1963.
Imprint: [S.l.] : Chelsea House, 1970.
Description: 1 videocassette (U-matic) (13 min.): sd., col. ; 3/4 in.
Summary: Contemporary films document the non-violent civil rights protests of the 1950's. Coverage begins with the 1948 Democratic Party convention and ends with the 1963 March on Washington.
E185.61.S88
Title: Martin Luther King, Jr.: from Montgomery to Memphis videorecording
Imprint: [S.l.] : BFA, c1969.
Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (27 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Documents Martin Luther King's life and his contributions to the civil rights campaign. Examines Dr. King's involvement with and commitment to justice for both the Negroes and the poor.
E185.97.K5M32
Title: Miles of smiles, years of struggle the untold story of the Black Pullman porter
Imprint: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1983, c1982.
Description: 1 videocassette (59 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Discusses the struggle of Black Pullman porters to unionize, even though rebuked by white organized labor, and the eventual formation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters under A. Philip Randolph. Explores the impact of this group on the American civil rights movement.
HD6515.R362M55 1983
Title: In remembrance of Martin [videorecording].
Imprint: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, [1999?]
Description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Summary: This tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. is composed of testimonies by his family, associates, and government leaders, and includes documentary footage.
E185.97.K5I5 1999
Title: Resurgence videorecording.
Imprint: New York, N.Y. : First Run Icarus Films, c1981.
Description: 1 videocassette (53 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Union activists' efforts to improve the conditions at a chicken- packing plant in Laurel, Miss., are counterpointed with the activities of the United Racist Front, a coalition of the Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazis and the States Rights Party.
System Note: VHS format.
F349.L38R47 1981
Title: "Fundi": the story of Ella Baker videorecording
Imprint: [Wayne, N.J. : New Day Films], c1981.
Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (48 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Summary: The history of the civil rights movement is seen through the lifework of Ella Baker, who for over 50 years was a behind-the-scenes leader, as well as a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
E185.97.F96
Title: Black theatre the making of a movement videorecording
Imprint: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [198-?]
Description: 1 videocassette (110 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Contents: pt.1. Pioneers -- pt.2. A theatre of our own -- pt.3. Black theatre and beyond.
Summary: This film recaptures the birth of a new theatre from the Civil Rights activism of the 1950's, 60's and 70's. Includes interviews with various Afro-American playwrights and excerpts from performances.
PN2270.A35B53 1980z
Title: Generations of resistance [videorecording]
Imprint: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [c198-?]
Description: 1 videocassette (52 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Documentary using archival photographs, newsreel footage, and interviews to chronicle the quest by black South Africans for economic viability and individual freedom.
DT1756.G46 1980zTitle: I am somebody videorecording
Imprint: New York : First Run Icarus Films, [198-?]
Description: 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Records the 1969 strike by black, predominantly female, hospital workers in Charleston, S.C. for better working conditions and higher wages. IT shows how the struggle was won by a coalition of local and national union and civil rights groups plus the local black community through nonviolent marches and demonstrations.
E185.93.S7I32 1980z
Title: 1968: a look for new meanings. videorecording
Imprint: Princeton, N. J. : Films for the Humanities, 1978.
Description: 1 videocassette (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Contents: Pt. 1. Vietnam: the television war -- Pt. 2. The black movement -- Pt. 3. Student protests -- Pt. 4. The battle of Chicago.
Summary: Looks back at 1968 from a distance of ten years.
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Title: Disobeying orders GI resistance to the Vietnam War videorecording Imprint: New York : Filmakers Library, c1989.
Description: 1 videocassette (29 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Focuses on the GI and veteran anti-war movement. Oral history interviews with Vietnam veterans are interwoven with photos, film footage, and popular music of the 1960's.
DS559.6.D57 1989 Not Checked OutTitle: Martin Luther King, Jr.: letter from Birmingham jail videorecording Imprint: [S.l.] : Coronet/MTI Film & Video, c1988.
Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (26 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in. + 1 discussion guide.
Summary: Frantz Turner plays Martin Luther King, Jr. in this program that uses news footage and dramatization to show King's arrest in Birmingham, Alabama for defying a court order banning public demonstrations. While in jail, he wrote the document that became one of the fundamental arguments behind the civil rights movement.
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E185.61.M375 guide Not Checked OutTitle: Who Killed Vincent Chin? videorecording
Imprint: New York, N.Y. : Filmakers Library, c1988.
Description: 1 videocassette (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Documentary on racism in working-class America focuses on the murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American, outside a Detroit bar. Interweaves the murder with social concerns and questions about justice.
HT1521.W49 1988 Not Checked OutTitle: The Road to Brown videorecording
Imprint: San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel, 1989.
Description: 1 videocassette (48 min.) ; sd., col. & b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: The story of a daring but little known black lawyer, Charles Hamilton Houston, who helped launch the Civil Rights Movement through his legal campaigns against the Jim Crow laws.
E185.97.H83R63 1989Title: We shall overcome videorecording
Imprint: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1989.
Description: 1 videocassette (58 mins.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Provides a history of the song We shall overcome and its influence on the civil rights movement.
M1670.W43 1989
Title: We can change the world videorecording
Imprint: Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, c1991.
Description: 1 videocassette (58 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Chronicles the years 1960-1964, when the civil rights movement and John F. Kennedy inspired idealism in college students. The program explores the impact of the Cuban missile crisis, the assasination of John F. Kennedy, and the 1963 March on Washington.
HN59.M25 1991 no.2
Title: Gotta make this journey Sweet Honey in the Rock videorecording Imprint: New York, N.Y. : Women Make Movies, [199-?].
Description: 1 videocassette (57 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Summary: The members of the vocal group Sweet Honey in the Rock discuss the development of their group, their backgrounds in Gospel music and the Civil Rights movement, the political and social significance of the music they perform, and their desire as Black artists to make a creative contribution to their musical heritage.
ML421.S84G67 1990zTitle: Mau mau videorecording
Imprint: Van Nuys, CA : Bellwether Group, [1990?]
Description: 1 videocassette (51 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Traces the history of the state of emergency declared by the British Colonial government of Kenya in 1952 in an attempt to subdue the movement among black Kenyans for political and civil rights. Reveals the secret society known as Mau Mau to have been an attempt by the white minority to discredit the rising tide of black nationalism.
DT433.577.M38 1990 Not Checked Out
Title: Super Chief: the life and legacy of Earl Warren
Imprint: Los Angeles, CA : Direct Cinema Ltd., 1990.
Description: 1 videocassette (88 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Describes the life of Earl Warren, one of the most controversial Chief Justices of the Supreme Court, and the way the Warren Court changed American society due to landmark civil rights legislation.
KF8745.W3S87 1990
Title: Mississippi summer the unfinished journey videorecording
Imprint: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1993.
Description: 1 videocassette (51 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: A history of the civil rights struggle for blacks during the 1960s in Mississippi.
E185.93.M6M57 1993
Title: At the river I stand [videorecording].
Imprint: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, c1993.
Summary: Documentary of two 1968 events in the civil rights movement-- the sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Shows how the black community, local civil rights leaders, and AFSCME mobilized behind the strikers in mass demonstrations and a boycott of downtown businesses.
HD5325.S2572 1968M45 1993Title: Benjamin E. Mays videorecording
Imprint: New York, NY : Carousel Film & Video, c1992.
Description: 1 videocassette (29 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Summary: A program on the life and achievements of Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, former president of Morehouse College. Includes comments from President Jimmy Carter, Atlanta Mayor Maynard H. Jackson and others.
LC2851.M72B46 1992
Title: A time for justice [videorecording
Description: 1 videocassette (38 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Depicts the battle for civil rights, recalling the crises in Montgomery, Little Rock, Birmingham, and Selma and reveals the heroism of the individuals involved.
E185.615.T55 1992
Title: A place of rage [videorecording].
Imprint: New York, NY : Women Make Movies, 1991.
Description: 1 videocassette (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Summary: June Jordan, Angela Davis, Alice Walker and Trinh T. Minh-Ha comment upon experiences of Afro-American women, upon racial discrimination and its effects upon the American culture and make suggestions which they hope will improve the future. Includes historical footage of civil rights movement in the 1960's.
E185.61.P65 1991
Title: Freedom on my mind [videorecording]
Imprint: Berkeley, Calif. : Clarity Educational Productions, c1994.
Description: 1 videocassette (109 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Documentary of the civil rights movement and the events surrounding the Mississippi Voter Registration Project of the early 1960's. Combines archival footage with contemporary interviews.
E185.93.M6F74 1994
Title: Anne Wortham another view of the civil rights movement [videorecording]
Imprint: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1994.
Description: 1 videocassette (51 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Sociologist Anne Wortham talks with Bill Moyers about her controversial views on the civil rights movement and affirmative action programs as they discuss race relations in America.
E185.625.A66 1994
Title: The end of the nightstick confronting police brutality in Chicago [videorecording]
Imprint: New York : First Run Icarus Films, c1994.
Description: 1 videocassette (45 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Details allegations of police brutality in Chicago, and follows community protests against police commander Jon Burge.
HV8148.C42E52 1993Title: The art of resistance [videorecording]
Imprint: [New York, NY] : Cinema Guild, c1994.
Description: 1 videocassette (27 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Seven chicano artists talk about their work and how it has contributed to the civil rights movement for Mexican Americans.
N6538.M4A78 1994Title: Malcolm X : make it plain [videorecording]
Imprint: [Alexandria, Va.] : Distributed by PBS Video, c1994.
Description: 1 videocassette (141 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 1/2 in + 1 instructional sheet.
Summary: A biographical examination of Malcolm X, which weaves together interviews, archival footage, photographs, and an original score to portray the intellectual journey of a complex man whose ideas still resonate today.
E185.96.M25 1994
E185.96.M25 1994 sheet
Title: Black, white and angry [videorecording]
Imprint: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, c1996.
Description: 1 videocassette (77 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Summary: This NBC News program examines the relationships between blacks and whites at work, in their communities, and the role politics and politicians play in issues affecting them. Also examines what the future holds for the already delicate relationship between the two races in America.
E185.61.B63 1996
Title: God is angry, says Farrakhan : black power 1996 [videorecording] /.
Description: 1 videocassette (58 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Reviews the Million Man March, Louis Farrakhan & other personalities of the civil rights movement. Includes interviews of black Americans prominent in the civil rights movement.
BP223.Z8F384 1996
Title: Chicano! : History of the Mexican American civil rights movement [videorecording]
Imprint: Los Angeles, CA : Distributed by NLCC Educational Media, c1996.
Description: 4 videocassettes (228 min.) : sd., col. and b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Contents: [episode 1]. Quest for a homeland -- [episode 2]. The struggle in the fields -- [episode 3]. Taking back the schools -- [episode 4]. Fighting for political power.
Summary: Land, labor, educational reform, and political enpowerment are the four themes of this documentary regarding the Mexican American civil rights movement from 1965 to 1975.
E184.M5C432 1996 pt. 1
E184.M5C432 1996 pt. 2
E184.M5C432 1996 pt. 3
E184.M5C432 1996 pt. 4
Title: Mississippi, America [videorecording]
Imprint: [Alexandria, VA] : Distributed by PBS Video, c1996.
Description: 1 videocassette (58 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in. + 1 educator's guide ([4] p. ; 28 cm.)
Summary: Focuses on how black citizens of Mississippi challenged the state's voter registration laws during the Freedom Summer of 1964.
E185.93.M6M56 1995
Title: A. Philip Randolph : for jobs & freedom [videorecording]
Imprint: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1996.
Description: 1 videocassette (88 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Biography of the African American labor leader, journalist, and civil rights activist, A. Philip Randolph. Randolph won the first national labor agreement for a Black union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. His threat of a protest march on Washington forced President Roosevelt to ban segregation in the federal government and defense industries at the onset of WWII and again he forced Truman to integrate the military. Finally with the 1963 March on Washington, Randolph succeeded in placing civil rights at the forefront of the nation's legislative agenda as he passed the torch to Martin Luther King, Jr.
E185.97.R27A16 1996
Title: Yuri Kochiyama [videorecording] : passion for justice
Imprint: San Francisco, CA : Distributed by NAATA, c1995.
Description: 1 videocassette (58 min.) : sd, col. and b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: A political and social biography of Yuri Kochiyama, an Asian American woman and humanitarian civil rights activist who first became aware of social injustice in the United States during her time in a Japanese-American interment camp during World War II. She stresses the need for members of all races and ethnicities to work together for common goals, and for a fundamental change in political power structures. Includes interviews with Kochiyama and with members of her family.
E184.A1Y864 1995
Title: Thurgood Marshall portrait of an American hero videorecording :/ Imprint: Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, 1994.
Description: 1 videocassette (28 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Summary: This historical documentary traces the career of the first black appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Justice Marshall's position as a role model and civil rights trailblazer is emphasized.
KF8745.M34T58 1994Title: 4 little girls [videorecording]
Imprint: New York : HBO Home Video, c1998.
Description: 1 videocassette (102 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: On Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963, dynamite planted by the Ku Klux Klan, exploded in the 16th St. Baptist Church, a meeting place for participants in civil rights activities. The bomb killed four girls, Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley. This documentary utilizes achival footage and photographs, as well as contemporary interviews to examine this incident and its repercussions.
F334.B69A24 1998
Title: Ready for revolution [videorecording]
Imprint: Washington, DC : SciFax Multimedia, c1998.
Description: 1 videocassette (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Compiles the speeches given in honor of Kwame Ture at the Kwame Ture testimonial dinner on Apr. 8, 1998.
E185.97.C257R43 1998
Title: Requiem-29 [videorecording].
Description: 1 videocassette (32 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Documents the tactics used by police to disorganize and disperse Mexican American demonstrators at a mass march. Also examines the death of Los Angeles Times reporter Rubén Salazar at the Chicano National Moratorium in Los Angeles, Aug. 29, 1970.
E184.M5R43 1997Title: The pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson [videorecording]
Imprint: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, c1997.
Description: 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Interviews with family, foes and advisors profile a leader whose dynamic personality, energy and ambition make him a fixture in American politics.
E185.97.J25P54 1997
Title: Blacks & Jews [videorecording]
Imprint: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, c1997.
Description: 1 videocassette (85 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Early in the 20th century Black and Jewish Americans joined forces against bigotry and to fight for their civil rights, but in the late 1960's each group turned inward and the coalition fell apart. This film examines the history of this collaboration and recent conflicts between Afro-Americans and Jews, and attempts at understanding and reconciliation, with particular emphasis on events in New York City and Oakland, California.
E185.615.B5533 1997
Title: Flyers in search of a dream [videorecording]
Imprint: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, [1999?]
Description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Documents the adventures of early black aviators. Includes Bessie Coleman, the first Black pilot to be licensed ; William J. Powell, Sr., Herbert Julian, and James Herman Banning.
TL521.F38 1999
Title: Malcolm X [videorecording] : make it plain
Imprint: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, [1999?]
Description: 3 videocassettes (141 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: A biographical examination of Malcolm X, which weaves together interviews, archival footage, photographs, and an original score to portray the intellectual journey of a complex man whose ideas still resonate today.
System Note: VHS format.
E185.96.M25 1999 pt. 1
E185.96.M25 1999 pt. 2
E185.96.M25 1999 pt. 3
Title: Roots in the sand [videorecording]
Imprint: San Francisco, CA : Distributed by NAATA, c1998.
Description: 1 videocassette (57 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Through a combined use of extensive archival material and personal interviews, this documentary examines the lives of the Sikh, Moslem and Hindu immigrants of the early 20th century who farmed California's desert regions, particularly the Imperial Valley. There they had to circumvent racism, miscegenation laws, barriers to land ownership and citizenship and even Anglo farmers seeking vengeance.
E184.E2R66 1998Title: Nashville, we were warriors [videorecording] Imprint: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2000.
Description: 1 videocassette (33 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Summary: In Fall 1959, James Lawson offered free evening classes on nonviolent action to university students in Nashville with the goal of training and preparing them to desegregate the city's business district. Lawson had spent three years in India learning about Mohandas Gandhi. Now he guides his students in a study of both the history and practice of nonviolent methods--to prepare them for their "sit-ins" at downtown stores. Lawson's guidance helps the students endure the beatings and arrests, and lead a boycott.
HM1281.F672 2000
Title: The freedom train [videorecording]
Imprint: New York, NY : Filmakers Library, [1990-?]
Description: 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 1/2 in.
Summary: A history of the National Negro Labor Council, a forerunner of the civil rights movement that followed in the 1960's.
HD8081.A65F73 1990z
Title: Now [videorecording]
Imprint: [New York, N.Y. : Latin American Video Archives, 199-?]
Description: 1 videocassette (6 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
Credits: Sung by Lena Horne.
Summary: Montage of U.S. news films and stills that captures the repressive reaction of some authorities to the civil rights movement and the resulting suffering, frustration, and bitterness. The images are accompanied by the song, “Now” which was banned on many American radio stations.
PN1992.8.M87N68 1990zTitle: The Bloods of 'Nam videorecording
Imprint: Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, c1986.
Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (58 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Summary: Wallace Terry talks with Black Vietnam veterans who candidly discuss the discrimination and prejudice they faced from fellow soldiers, their war experiences, and their lives since returning to the U.S.
DS559.5.B565