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This website has been created specifically with our country's teachers in mind. Here you'll find an array of films and documentaries which deal with historical and socially relevant themes, along with teaching guides that will help facilitate classroom discussion.
HBO FILMS
John Adams
John Adams
A sprawling epic that brings a contemporary perspective to a seminal moment in history, this epic seven-part miniseries explores the extraordinary life and times of one of America's least understood, and most underestimated, founding fathers: the second President of the United States, John Adams.
Teacher's Guide
Student Guide
Web Site
Boycott
Boycott
Evokes the tension, energy and excitement of the moment the Civil Rights movement found its leader in Martin Luther King Jr..
Educator's Guide
DVD
Iron-Jawed Angels
Iron-Jawed Angels
The true story of two women who dared to stand up for women's rights, and ended up shaping the future of America.
Educator's Guide
Website
DVD
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Explores the tragic impact that the United States' westward expansion had on American Indian culture, and the economic, political and social pressures that motivated it.
Educator's Guide
Website
DVD
Recount
Recount
An illuminating, highly entertaining film that explores the human drama surrounding the most controversial presidential election in U.S. history.
Educator's Guide
Website
DVD
Something the Lord Made
Something the Lord Made
Story of two men who defied the racial strictures and together pioneered the field of heart surgery.
Web Site
Educator's Guide
DVD
Sometimes In April
Sometimes In April
A gripping drama inspired by true events surrounding the 100 days genocide in Rwandan in 1994.
Web Site
DVD
The Laramie Project
The Laramie Project
Sheds light on a western town's loss of innocence following a hate crime perpetrated on a 21-year-old student.
Educator's Guide
Website
DVD
Walkout
Walkout
Stirring true story of the Chicano students of East LA, who in 1968 staged several dramatic walkouts in their high schools to protest academic prejudice and dire school conditions.
Educator's Guide
Web Site
DVD
Warm Springs
Warm Springs
Explores the physical and spiritual evolution of Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the time that he became paralyzed by polio.
Educator's Guide
Web Site
DVD
Yesterday
Yesterday
Set against the awesome, harsh landscapes of South Africa, Yesterday is an eloquent, unsentimental film about an impoverished South African woman who courageously deals with a diagnosis of AIDS.
Website
DVD
HBO DOCUMENTARY FILMS
Too Hot Not To Handle
Too Hot Not To Handle
Over the past 100 years, the mass consumption of fossil fuels, especially in America, has contributed to a dangerous warming of the earth that has adversely impacted the way we live. This cautionary documentary offers a guide to the effects of global warming in the United States.
Educator's Guide
Web Site
DVD
The Addiction Project
The Addiction Project
The Addiction Project is an unprecedented multi-platform campaign aimed at helping Americans understand addiction.
Discussion Guide
Web Site
DVD
4 Little Girls
4 Little Girls
Tells the story of a bombing in 1963 which destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, and killed four young girls.
Website
DVD
Heir to an Execution
Heir to an Execution
Captures the story of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed as traitors in 1953 after being accused of relaying the secret of the atomic bomb.
Educator's Guide
Website
DVD
Thin
Thin
Explores the issues underlying eating disorders, an illness which affects five
million people in the U.S.
Educator's Guide
Website
DVD
Unchained Memories: Readings From the Slave Narratives
Unchained Memories: Readings From the Slave Narratives
Presents dramatic selections from the extensive Slave Narrative Collection
through on-camera readings by over a dozen actors.
Educator's Guide
Website
DVD
When the Levees Broke: A Requeim in Four Acts
When the Levees Broke: A Requeim in Four Acts
An heart-rending portrait of post-Katrina New Orleans told through personal stories of those who endured this harrowing ordeal.
Teaching The Levees Website
DVD
White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Revisits the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and shares the stories of the only people to have survived a nuclear attack.
Educator's Guide
Website
DVD
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