The US Civil Rights Movement Film and Documentary Suggestions
Documentaries
A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom (1996) All Power to the People (1996) At the River I Stand (1993) The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015) Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football (2008) Brother Outsider (2002) Chisholm ‘72: Unbought and Unbossed (2004) Eyes on the Prize (1987-1990) Freedom on My Mind (1994) Freedom Riders (2010) Freedom Summer (2014) Fundi (1981) Home of the Brave (2004) Ida Wells: A Passion for Justice (1989) James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (1990) King: From Montgomery to Memphis (1970) Klansville USA (2015) Love and Solidarity (2015) The Loving Story (2012) The Murder of Emmet Till (2003) Paul Robeson: Here I Stand (1999) Richard Wright- Black Boy (1994) Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre (2009) Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2001) Simple Justice (1993) Soundtrack for a Revolution (2009) Strange Fruit (2002) A Time for Burning (1966) The Untold Story of Emmet Till (2005) We Shall Overcome (1989) You Got to Move (1985) Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun (2008)
Fiction Films
42 (2013) 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002) All the Way (2016) Fences (2016) Freedom Song (2006) Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) In the Heat of the Night (1967) The Long Walk Home (1990) Loving (2016) Malcolm X (1992) Mississippi Burning (1988)
Rebekah Buchanan Fulbright Roving Scholar 2018-19 Updated December 2018 Murder in Mississippi (1990) Nothing but a Man (1964) A Raisin in the Sun (1961) Selma (2014)
Other Film Suggestions that Connect to the CRM
Documentaries
13th (2016) I Am Not Your Negro (2016) What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015) Whose Streets? (2017)
Fiction Films
BlacKkKlansman (2018) Detroit (2017) Do the Right Thing (1989) Fruitvale Station (2013) Hidden Figures (2017) The Hate U Give (2018) Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
Rebekah Buchanan Fulbright Roving Scholar 2018-19 Updated December 2018