Write a paper on Civil Rights films: Hidden Figures; One Night in Miami; Selma
Black Panther film: Judas and the Black Messiah
Vietnam War films: Born on the 4th of July; The Trial of the Chicago 7; Da 5 Bloods
The Chicano Movement: Walkout!
The films all stream on different platforms, some of which offer free 1-week trial periods.
Hidden Figures is the only film that you can access via the RCC library on the Feature Films for
Education database. If you have difficulty accessing a film, please lmk.
Primary Sources:
Civil Rights: Voices, chapter 17: Anne Moody, John Lewis, Malcolm X, Fannie Lou
Hamer, Sandra A. West, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Black Panthers: Voices, ch.19. Assata Shakur and Kathleen Neal Cleaver; ch.20 Angela
Davis; ch.22 Mumia Abu-Jamal
Vietnam War: Voices, chapter 18: Martin Luther King, Jr., SNCC, Muhammad Ali,
Jonathan Schell; Larry Colburn; Haywood T. The Kid Kirkland
The Chicano Movement: you will be using the Civil Rights and possibly Black
Panther sources in a comparative way
make sure you use at least 3 primary sources in your historical film analysis, no matter
which film/topic you choose.
