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Juneteenth: Now Streaming on Docuseek
Essential documentary films for higher education
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Honor Juneteenth with Docuseek | |
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For Juneteenth, Docuseek has curated a selection of award-winning and pressing films on African-Americans, from pioneering leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, to racial reckonings - past and present, and the power of nonviolent protest movements for equity and access to healthcare, education, and freedom.
Films from The Docuseek Complete Collection 4th Edition, and included in The Docuseek African-American Studies Collection, are When Claude Got Shot, Emmy® Winner for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, which dives deep into complex racial and class dynamics that serve as the catalyst for gun violence; The Five Demands, which spotlights affirmative action as we follow students’ struggle against institutional racism; The Lincoln School Story, about the heroic fight for school desegregation led by a handful of Ohio mothers and their children in 1954; and Love and Solidarity, about James Lawson, a top strategist for Martin Luther King, Jr., who passed away this month at 95. Lawson championed nonviolent direct action and confronted racial injustice in America for five decades. Rev. King called him “the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world.”
Highlights from The GOOD DOCS Complete Collection include King in Chicago, about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s understanding of the link between the Civil Rights Movement and the social injustice of poverty; American Justice On Trial: People V. Newton, which tells the forgotten story of the death penalty case that put racism on trial in 1968; Invented Before You Were Born, about a journey to share the stories of descendants and cousins linked by enslavement; and Purple Dreams, about the need for arts education in underserved communities.
Licensing options are available for one year, three years or Life of File for individual titles, The Docuseek African-American Studies Collection, The Docuseek Complete Collection 4th Edition; one year and three years for The GOOD DOCS Complete Collection.
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An African American gospel choir goes to Palestine to sing in a Palestinian play about Martin Luther King, Jr. They become witnesses to life under occupation and a non-violent movement for justice. (Clarity Films)
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The untold story behind the murder trial of Black Panther leader Huey Newton: the landmark case that put racism on the stand. (GOOD DOCS) | | |
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For many Black girls raised in the suburbs, the experiences of going to school, playing on the playground, and living day-to-day life is alienating. This film looks at the suburbs of America from the perspective of women of color. (Women Make Movies) | | |
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German photographer Thomas Hoepke, reveals the story behind one of the most iconic pictures in the history of sports: the portrait of boxing legend Muhammad Alì. (First Hand Films) | | |
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The camera of Guy Le Querrec is nothing but another tool among the instruments of jazz musicians. It was the same for Miles Davis, whom Le Querrec would follow for his entire career. (First Hand Films) | | |
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From award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand, this film reveals the ways in which class, race, and zip code predetermine unequal response and recovery to environmental disaster. (Bullfrog Films) | | |
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From the award-winning director of THE LOVING STORY, two young men, Gary Duncan, an unjustly arrested Black man and Richard Sobol, his Jewish attorney, take Duncan's case all the way to the Supreme Court to fight for the right of all Americans to a fair trial. (Bullfrog Films) | | |
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Examines the history of the US eugenics movement and its recent resurrection, which uses false scientific claims and holds that an all-powerful 'gene' determines who is worthy and who is not. (Bullfrog Films) | | |
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He changed the course of civil rights in the US and you never heard his name. (GOOD DOCS)
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A riveting story about the student strike that changed the face of higher education forever. (Icarus Films) | | |
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After a century of films that exploited, caricatured, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this film traces a secret history of Black Americans through their connection to the horror film genre. (Icarus Films) | | |
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Winner, John E. O'Connor Film Award, American Historical Association. One black family's commitment to a quality education, from the pre-1965 time of segregation, through desegregation, and through the recent period of resegregation. (Icarus Films) | | |
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We can't hide from history. (GOOD DOCS) | | |
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The first major documentary biography of civil rights hero, congressional leader and champion for human rights, whose unwavering fight for justice spanned over fifty years. (Bullfrog Films)
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Part of the mediamaking movement that first gave centrality to the voices and experiences of African American women during the late Seventies and early Eighties, these two re-releases - are no less groundbreaking today. (Women Make Movies) | | |
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Chicago Freedom Movement confront northern racism and poverty. (GOOD DOCS) | | |
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Follows the heroic fight for school desegregation led by a handful of Ohio mothers and their children in 1954. (Bullfrog Films) | | |
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A story of 12 ordinary people who accomplished extraordinary things in the Civil Rights movement. (Bullfrog Films) | | |
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An exploration of nonviolence and organizing through the life and teachings of Rev. James Lawson. (Bullfrog Films)
Photo: Rev. James Lawson leads Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, 1968
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Oscar-shortlist selection. The definitive account of Loving v. Virginia, the landmark 1967 Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage. (Icarus Films) | | |
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In Orangeburg, South Carolina, a battle erupts between the Sons of Confederate Veterans and an ice cream shop owner forced to fly the Confederate flag in his parking lot. (Bullfrog Films)
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Celebrates legendary 98-year-old park ranger Betty Reid Soskin's inspiring life, work and urgent mission to restore critical missing chapters of America's story. (Bullfrog Films)
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A multimedia one-woman show exploring the intersections of race, class and gender in pursuit of truth, justice and love. (GOOD DOCS) | | |
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Meet Erners Withers - iconic civil rights photographer, FBI informant. (GOOD DOCS) | | |
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Tells a poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. (Bullfrog Films)
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Follow at-risk theatre students who turn stereotypes about youth upside down in this emotional and entertaining journey. (GOOD DOCS) | | |
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A rigorous night course in the humanities at a community center in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester illuminates the glaring gap between rich and poor, Black and white, in an ostensibly prosperous and progressive city. (Bullfrog Films)
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Generations of African American mentors empower youth through ancestral art and culture. (GOOD DOCS)
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Depicts Guor Mading Maker's difficult and triumphant journey from refugee to world-renowned athlete. (Bullfrog Films) | | |
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The Savoy Ballroom was the home of the amazing Lindy Hop dancers, and the first venue in America where Blacks and Whites could dance and socialize together. (Collective Eye Films) | | |
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Academy Awards® Shortlist for Best Documentary Short Subject. Connects the massive 1963 Chicago Public Schools boycott to contemporary issues around race, education, school closings, and youth activism. (Bullfrog Films) | | |
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Emmy® Winner for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. After being shot in the face by a teenager, can law student Claude find it in himself to forgive his attacker? (371 Productions) | | |
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What it means to be young, Black, and democrat in the American South. (GOOD DOCS) | |
Docuseek streams essential independent, social-issue and environmental documentaries to colleges and universities, providing exclusive access to content from Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films (including The Fanlight Collection and dGenerate Films), Women Make Movies, Kartemquin Films, National Film Board of Canada, First Run Features, KimStim, First Hand Films, MediaStorm, Scorpion TV, Terra Nova Films, Viewpoint Productions, Film Movement, Deckert Distribution, The Films of Anand Patwardhan, Cinétévé, Tecolote Films, Strange Attractions, Clarity Films, AndanaFilms, 371 Productions, Dutch CORE, Autlook, Collective Eye Films, Distrib Films, Lightdox, Sudu Connexion, and GOOD DOCS. Licenses are available for single titles or collections for periods ranging from one year to Life of File. Interested in a trial for your campus? Contact Elena Wayne, Sales and Marketing Manager, 847-537-0606 or at ewayne@docuseek2.com. | | | | |
