Recommended Films: Middle School
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Feature Films and TV Dramas
Amazing Grace (2006, 2007 U.S.)
Amistad (1997)
The Attic (1992)
Black Like Me (1964)
Brian's Song (1971)
Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
Cool Runnings (1993)
The Color of Friendship (2000)
Cry, the Beloved Country (1995, 1951)
Drumline (2002)
Glory (1989)
Glory Road (2006)
Good Night and Good Luck (2005)
Gracie (2007)
The Great White Hope (1970)
Gung Ho (1986)
Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters (1999)
Imitation of Life (1959)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Killing Floor (1985)
The Last of His Tribe (1992)
Little Big Man (1970)
The Loretta Claiborne Story (2000)
The Mighty (1998)
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Music of the Heart (1999)
Pride (2007)
Pushing Hands (1992) *7th & 8th grades
Remember the Titans (2000)
The Rosa Parks Story (2002)
The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
Selma (2014)
Separate but Equal (1991)
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2003)
Star Trek: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (1969)
Swing Kids (1993)
10,000 Black Men Named George (2002)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
West Side Story (1961)
Documentaries
The American Experience: America and the Holocaust (1994)
Chisholm '72—Unbought and Unbossed (2005)
Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (2005)
Control Room (2004)
Eyes on the Prize I and II (1987)
Face: A Portrait (1999)
Hawaii's Last Queen: The Embattled Reign of Queen Lili'uokalani (1997)
Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story (1992)
Ishi: The Last Yahi (1992)
Mystic Voices: The Story of the Pequot Wars (2005)
On Our Watch (2007)
The Port of Last Resort: Refuge in Shanghai (1998)
The Public Mind: The Truth About Lies (1989)
Seeing Daylight: Alaska's Tlingit and Their Culture (1996)
Slavery and the Making of America (2004)
Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness (2000)
Young@Heart (2007, released 2008)