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January 23, 2007
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Center for the Healing of Racism
The Center's Film Archive
ABC News 20/20 Segment, 2/27/98 (by Investigative Reporter Arnold Diaz)
African-American shoppers share racist treatment directed at them by store clerks and security agents while European-Americans are left untargeted.
ADL's Anti-Semitism on the College Campus (11/92)
College students share their personal experiences with anti-Semitism, examine attitudes which foster it, and explore ways in which to effectively repond to it.
P.O.V.'s Color Adjustment (narrated by Ruby Dee)
This film explores the changing images of Blacks on TV. "The country’s image of the Negro, which hasn’t very much to do with the Negro, has never failed to reflect with a kind of frightening accuracy the state of mind of the country." James Baldwin
That’s Black Entertainment
Compilation from many forgotten movies by the underground film industry which emerged in the Black community in the 30s and 40s because of prejudice and segregation. It shows how African American producers, directors and actors more accurately depict the lives and concerns of African Americans in contrast to films produced by their European American counterparts.
Black Pioneers: True Faces of the West
Focuses on African-American pioneers who in the past four hundred years became explorers, guides, cowhands, teachers and professionals as they moved into remote areas West of the Mississippi River. Most of their stories have eluded history books. This two-part documentary sets the record straight.
Strange Demise of Jim Crow: How Houston Desegregated Its Public Accommodations, 1959-1963
This documentary reveals emblematic quiet, almost stealthy way many cities in the South ultimately desegregated . . . revealing secret agreements, controversial news blackouts which accompanied desegregation of lunch counters, hotels, restaurants and theaters in Houston between 1959-1963. It is a hopeful story of compromise and negotiation, as well as a cautionary tale about the complex trade-offs between press censorship and racial conflict.
Life and Death of Malcom X
Fascinating documentary that shows dozens of speeches, interviews, and a special TV show. Hear the secret recording of an FBI agent trying to bribe Malcom and a never-before-seen confession from Talmadge Hayer, one of Malcom’s assassins.
When Ireland Starved
Using archival sketches, this film recreates the horror of one of the most catastrophic events in Irish history—the Great Potato Famine. It exposes the British orchestrated disaster that has been hidden from the public eye.
Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965, Awakenings (1954-1956)
Meet ordinary people who played extraordinary roles—from grass roots protests to Supreme Court victories, launching the modern movement for civil rights. This film captures the courage of Black Americans as they strode toward freedom.
Black Is . . . Black Ain’t
Marlon Riggs locates the essence of "blackness" in African Americans’ courage from slavery down to the present, improvising a positive meaning for their lives in face of overwhelming discrimination and suffering. This film weaves together the testimony of those whose complexion, class, gender, speech or sexuality has made them feel "too Black" or "not Black enough."
The Bluest Eyes
Ethnically diverse group, including teachers, police, social works and others of both genders take part in a blue-eyed/brown-eyed experiment that provides an opportunity for them to learn what it is to be a minority in this race-based nation.
Not In Our Town!
This dramatic video documents what happened in Billings, Montana where white supremacists had victimized some residents because of their race, religion or ethnicity. It also chronicles the actions of citizens throughout the country who respond to hate crimes and other acts of intolerance. Hosted by comedian Will Durst.
In the White Man’s Image
Recounts how Captain Richard Pratt experimented on Native Americans in order to "kill the Indian and save the man." Pratt obtained government funding to set up schools where Native American children were stripped of everything they had learned in their own cultures. His experiments ended in failure in the 1930s.
None of the Above
A documentary about people of mixed heritage based on the filmmaker’s own search for identity and community—an emotionally compelling and particularly relevant message in today’s multicultural society.
The Color of Fear
Award winning film about the pain and anguish that racism has caused in the lives of eight North American men of Asian, European, Latin American and African descent. An emotional and insightful portrayal of the type of dialogue most of us fear, but hope will happen sometime in our lifetime emerges out of their confrontations and struggles to understand and trust one another.
The Shadow of Hate
History of intolerance in America through documentary footage and eyewitness reports,three centuries of struggle is expressed from the perspective of ordinary people who lived through the times.
Skin Deep
Takes the viewers on a journey into the minds of college students as they confront racism. They share their anger, pain, confusion and hope. This film encourages self-examination and dialogue as it delves beneath the surface of America’s racial divide.
Anti-Semitism on the College Campus
Anti-Semitic incidents on the American campus reveal a trauma for each student who has been affected and for the college community which must respond. Eleven students grapple with their reactions and search for appropriate responses and solutions.
Street Stories
Revisit Los Angeles, California, April 30, 1992, as it aired on CBS.
Family Gathering
Examines repercussions of internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War by the granddaughter of a detainee.
Los Vendidos
A biting satire of cultural stereotypes of Mexican Americans
A Time for Justice
Historic footage and voices of movement participants are powerfully presented from the perspective of ordinary people who lived through these events.
The Eye of the Storm
Prize-winning documentary of well-known work of teacher Jane Elliott who separated her students into groups based on their eye color to teach them about prejudice.
The Trouble Behind
Explores the roots and persistence of racism in a powerful documentary about Corbin, Kentucky, the home of Colonel Sanders.
Asian Stereotypes
An examination of stereotypes of Arab and Japanese cultures which fuel prejudice.
Black and White in Springfield
A penetrating view of how racism affects the economic, social, educational and religious spheres of a community. It also points out some positive efforts toward bringing the community together and affecting change.
Viva la Causa: 500 Years of Chicano History
A compelling introduction to the history of Mexican-American people depicting Mexican-Americans from their pre-Columbian origins through Spanish colonization. This is a unique, inspiring tool for everyone to learn about one of our oldest yet least known peoples.
Blacks and Jews
During the Civil Rights movement, African Americans and Jews fought together for equal rights. This film is an invaluable tool for increasing mutual understanding and building coalitions for social justice, not just between Blacks & Jews, but between all ethnic groups.
An Act of War
This film confronts the violent process of American colonialism: a violence of mass death, American missionizing, cultural destruction, & American military, as well as the exploitation of Hawaiians, their culture & their lands.
The Politics of Love: In Black and White
This documentary confronts forthrightly the issue of interracial romance. The joys and strengths of so-called mixed relationships, along with the pain and anxieties are discussed. It shuns pat answers in favor of revealing America’s continuing ambivalence about its ethnic diversity.
Breaking Through Stereotypes
This video is an excellent discussion starter for a multicultural curriculum, conflict resolution and human dynamics training. Produced by teenagers, this documentary explores how sterotypes influence human reaction
Prejudice: Answering Children's Questions
This video scrutinizes some of the influences that shape children's ideas about the world and examines stereotypes based on ethnicity, sex, religion and disability.
World Cultures: Similarities & Differences
Provides a thorough explanation of culture: what it is; why cultures are alike and different; and what role religion, environment, and historic events play in shaping cultures.
The Golden Door: Our Nation of Immigrants
This video shows how the diversity within the U.S. has made us a unique and powerful nation. It looks at the history of immigration, the patterns of change, recent laws and renewed debates over immigration policies.
The Longest Hatred: The History of Anti-Semitism
How anti-Semitism has shaped the experience of Jewish people from the first century to the present. Viewers will learn that this prejudice has its roots long before the Holocaust and continues to rear its ugly head in surprising places today.
The Two Nations of Black America
Measure the widening gap between the beneficiaries of affirmative action and those left behind. With the largest middle class in history but more than half of its children born into poverty, black America has overcome segregation only to face new walls of class.
The Buffalo Soldiers
From the Indian wars to the Spanish-American War, relive the heroism, drama and adventure of this legend. Chronicles the history and accomplishments of the all-African American cavalries and infantries during the last half of the nineteenth century.
The Tuskegee Airmen
Not welcomed in the Air Force, four newly recruited pilots are united to serve their country. They must undertake the riskiest mission of their lives—to prove to America that courage knows no color.
Beyond Barbed Wire
An “emotionally charged” telling of a “bizarre moment in America’s . . . history.” Its stories, poignant and humorous, recount the struggle that the offspring of interned Japanese Americans faced when they fought for the United States in WWII.
Navajo Code Talkers
The U.S. recruited over four hundred Navajo Indians for duty as communication specialists. They devised an unbreakable voice code to transmit battlefield messages during the Pacific Campaign whose amazing skills played a vital role on America’s victory.
Shattering the Silences: The Case for Minority Faculty
Across America campus diversity is under attack; affirmative action programs are banned, Ethnic Studies departments defunded, multicultural scholarship impugned. This video offers an opportunity to see United States campuses through the eyes of faculty of color.
African Americans in World War II: A Legacy of Patriotism and Valor
Never-before-seen footage of African-American servicemen and -women in Europe and the Pacific. Interview with Vernon Baker, the only African-American serviceman who lived to receive the Medal of Honor—fifty years after his acts of heroism.
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