Films on Demand: Streaming Video Collection
- Films on Demand
Films on Demand provides high quality streaming videos in many subject areas. The videos include documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.
- America After CharlestonThis PBS town hall meeting, moderated by Gwen Ifill, explores the many issues around race relations that have come to the fore after a white gunman shot and killed nine African-American parishioners in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015, and the removal of the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds that followed.
- Black America Since MLK: And Still I RiseFrom PBS and narrated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this documentary starts with the Selma marches and Watts riots, to white backlash and hip-hop and hope, to the divisive 1980s and 1990s, and ends with enduring modern obstacles.
- Black Lives MatterA documentary by Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the grassroots movement discusses the motivation behind the #BlackLivesMatter movement and proposes paths forward.
- Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Movement 1954–198514-part series that tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today.
- Reconstruction: America After the Civil War4-part series by Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the definitive history of the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself amidst profound loss, massive destruction and revolutionary social change.
- The Talk: Race in AmericaThis film documents the increasingly common conversation taking place in homes across the country between parents of color and their children, especially sons, about how to behave if they are ever stopped by the police. Distributed by PBS Distribution.
- Voices of Power: African-American WomenIn this program, writers Alice Walker and bell hooks and others examine the emergence of African-American women as popular and powerful voices of social conscience.
Selected Documentary Films on DVD in the Library
America beyond the Color LineCall Number: E 185.86 .A5 2003Documentary, History
Through numerous personal interviews, professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. examines the past, present, and future of black/white race relations in the USA.
American Experience: Freedom RidersCall Number: E 185.61 .F74 2011Documentary, History
Combines newsreel footage, rare photos and new interviews with the civil rights activists who faced danger to fight prejudice in the 1960s.
Black Panthers: Vanguard of the RevolutionCall Number: E 185.615 .B53 2016Documentary, History
The first feature length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails.
Dark GirlsCall Number: HQ 1161 .D37 2013Documentary
Dark Girls is a fascinating and controversial film that goes underneath the surface to explore the prejudices dark-skinned women face throughout the world.
Documenting Hate : Charlottesville & New American NazisCall Number: F 234 .C47 D6386 2019Documentary
In the wake of the 2018 deadly anti-Semitic attack at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, FRONTLINE and ProPublica present a new investigation into white supremacist groups in America - in particular, a neo-Nazi group, Atomwaffen Division, that has actively recruited inside the U.S. military.
I Am Not Your NegroCall Number: E 185.61 .I366 2017Documentary, History
An up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, this film is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
John Lewis: Get in the WayCall Number: E 185.97 .L49 J64 2017Biography, Documentary, History
Follow the courageous journey of John Lewis, a civil rights hero, congressional leader, and human rights champion whose unwavering fight for justice spans the past 50 years.
Klansville U.S.ACall Number: HS 2330 .K63 K536 2015Documentary, History
Investigate the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the country, with more members than all the other Southern states combined, during the 1960s.
LA 92Call Number: F 869 .L89 N39 2017Documentary, History
Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests and violence in Los Angeles, LA 92 immerses viewers in that tumultuous period through stunning and rarely seen footage.
Loving Story, TheCall Number: KF 224 .L68 L69 2013Documentary, Drama, History
A racially-charged criminal trial and a heart-rending love story converge in this documentary about Richard and Mildred Loving, set during the turbulent Civil Rights era.
March: The Story of the Greatest March in American History, TheCall Number: E 185.61 .M324 2013Documentary
Narrated by Denzel Washington, this video examines the renowned and historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Mr. Civil Rights : Thurgood Marshall & the NAACPCall Number: KF 8745 .M34 M7 2014Biography, Documentary, History
Civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall's triumph in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision to desegregate America's public schools completed the final leg of a journey of over 20 years laying the groundwork to end legal segregation
Pact: a story of survival, the streets and the power of friendship, TheCall Number: PN 1995.9 .N4 P33 2003Documentary
Three friends from the 'hood made a pact to go to college and then medical school. They accomplished this and are spreading the word to inspire other inner-city kids to stay off of drugs, out of gangs and to take the educational route to a better life.
Soundtrack for a RevolutionCall Number: E185.61 .S68 2010Documentary, History, Music
Takes a look at the American civil rights movement, focusing on the role that music -- spirituals and protest songs -- played, as the backdrop and the inspiration for the pickets, sit-ins, and demonstrations of the turbulent era.
Untold Story of Emmett Louis TillCall Number: E 185.6 .U58653 2005Documentary, Educational, History
The culmination of a 10-year investigation to uncover the details behind the nightmarish 1955 Mississippi murder of Emmett Louis Till, an African-American Chicago teenager. Till's death sparked the American Civil Rights Movement.
Whose Streets?Call Number: HV 6483 .F47 W4674 2017Documentary
Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, Whose Streets? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising.
With All Deliberate SpeedCall Number: LC 212.2 .W58 2004 (NDC)Documentary, History
A reflection on the state of civil rights in America 50 years after the 1954 unanimous Supreme Court ruling stating that the doctrine of "separate but equal" was inconsistent with the constitution of the United States.
