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Banished

87 minutes
Source: California Newsreel

In this documentary fimmaker Marco Williams expores three communities that forcibly expelled African American residents between the Civil War and the Great Depression, replacing Reconstruction with Jim Crow laws. The film explores the question of reparations: what do the residents of these now all-white towns owe to the families they drove out? Residents of Pierce City, Missouri; Harrison, Arkansas; and Forsyth County, Georgia are interviewed.

 

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Becoming American: The Chinese Experience

4 episodes, 90 minutes each
Source: PBS Video

What does it mean to become American? In interviews with historians, descendants, and recent immigrants, Bill Moyers explores this question through the experience of the Chinese in America.

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community
89 minutes
Source: First Run Features

In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city’s gay community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the Gay Liberation Movement had begun. Before Stonewall pries open the closet door—setting free the dramatic story of the sometimes horrifying public and private existences experienced by gay and lesbian Americans since the 1920s.

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 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Bill Moyers on Confronting our Past
 Video Clip June 8, 2009
Bontoc Eulogy

57 minutes
Source: The Cinema Guild

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Chicano!

4 videotapes, 57 minutes each
Source: out of print

Since the time of the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848, Mexican Americans have struggled to achieve equality and full rights as citizens of the United States. This 4-part series examines pivotal events concerning land, labor, education, and political empowerment that took place between 1965 and 1975, the period that was the focus of the Mexican-American civil rights movement.

1. Quest for a Homeland

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Culture Shock

270 minutes on 4 VHS tapes
Source: Out of print

This four-part series explores the often uneasy role of the arts in society through a series of controversial works and genres.

1. Born to Trouble: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (90 minutes)

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Ellis Island

150 minutes on three VHS tapes
Source: A&E Home Video

Immigrants of various ethnic backgrounds recall their extraordinary adventures, historians explore the sometimes insensitive national policies, and the Ellis Island Oral History Project reveals what the immigration experience was actually like. Features rare photographs and film.

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Family Name

89 minutes
Source: Amazon.com

Family Name documents filmmaker Macky Alston's search for connections between his own family and two African American families with the same last name. All three families trace their ancestors to a single South Carolina plantation.

The film (and an accompanying study guide developed by Facing History and Ourselves) can be used to deepen conversations not only about race but also about the legacies of slavery.

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Forgotten Ellis Island

63 minutes
Source: PBS Video

A century ago one of the world's great public hospitals was built, to examine and care for the tens of thousands of hopeful immigrants entering America through Ellis Island. The Ellis Island hospital was at once welcoming and foreboding. Immigrants nursed to health were allowed entry to America, but those deemed feeble of body or mind were deported.

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
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