Selected Films on Diversity-related Topics
Available from the Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs. Contact 815-753-1554.
1
Abandoned: The Betrayal of America’s Immigrants (2000)
2
Ancestors in the Americas: Coolies, Sailors, Settlers, Part I (Asian American
History Series, Center for Educational Telecommunications, 1998)
3
Ancestors in the Americas: Chinese in the Frontier West, Part II (Asian American
History Series, Center for Educational Telecommunications, 1998)
4
America Beyond the Color Line with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2003)
5
Being American: The Chinese Experience (PBS/WGHB, 2003)
6
Black Indians: An American Story (Richard-Heape Films, Inc., 2000)
7
Ellis Island (Ellis Island Oral History Project, 1997)
8
Far from Heaven (Vulcan Productions, 2003)
9
Four Little Girls (Home Box Office, 1998)
10
Frida (Miramax Films, 2002)
11
Gangs of New York (Miramax Films, 2002)
12
Glory (Tristar Picture, Inc., 1989)
13
Italian Americans (Multicultural Peoples of North America, Volume 9 (1993)
14
Ken Burn’s Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
(Florentine Films, 2004)
15
Ken Burn’s Baseball (Florentine Films, 1994)
16
Ken Burn’s Jazz (Florentine Films, 2002)
17
Ken Burn’s The Civil War (Florentine Films, 1999)
18
Muhammad Ali: The Whole Story (Turner Home Entertainment, Inc., 1996)
19
Race: The Power of an Illusion (Ford Foundation, 2003)
20
Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (PBS/WGBH, 2004)
21
Slavery’s Buried Past (Public Media Video, 1996)
22
The American Experience: Citizen King (PBS/WGHB, 2003)
23
The American Experience: Emma Goldman (PBS/WGHB, 2004)
24
The American Experience: John Brown’s Holy War (PBS/WGHB, 1999)
25
The American Experience: Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory (PBS/WGHB, 1999)
26
The American Experience: Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
(PBS/WGHB, 2000)
27
The American Experience: Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (PBS/WGHB, 2000)
28
The American Experience: The Murder of Emmett Till (PBS/WGHB, 2003)
29
The American Experience: The Roots of Resistance (PBS/WGHB, 1995)
30
The American Experience: Zoot Suit Riots (PBS/WGHB, 1999)
31
The Bicycle Corps: America’s Black Army on Wheels (PBS/WGHB, 2000)
32
The Irish in America: The Long Journey Home (Walt Disney Studios and WGHB, 1998)
33
Transcontinental Railroad (PBS/WGHB, 2003)
34
Two Towns of Jasper (Two Tone Productions, 2002)