Jesse Jackson Movies

  • 1999
    University, Inc.

    University, Inc.

    University, Inc.

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    The closing of a student film program serves as a paradigm for interrogating the corporate ideology that guides the largest public university in the...

    University, Inc.
  • 1980
    A Decade of Struggle

    A Decade of Struggle

    A Decade of Struggle

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    This special three-part presentation of "Like It Is" examines the history of the black civil rights movement in the United States, emphasizing the...

    A Decade of Struggle
  • 2020
    Uncle Tom

    Uncle Tom

    Uncle Tom

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    In a collection of intimate interviews with some of America's most provocative black conservative thinkers, Uncle Tom takes a different look at being...

    Uncle Tom
  • 1980
    A Matter of Respect

    A Matter of Respect

    A Matter of Respect

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    Teen pregnancy short drama, mixed with a real Planned Parenthood group session of women, and excerpts from a lecture by Reverend Jesse Jackson.

    A Matter of Respect
  • 1997
    4 Little Girls

    4 Little Girls

    4 Little Girls

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    On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a...

    4 Little Girls
  • 2001
    Last Party 2000

    Last Party 2000

    Last Party 2000

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    Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts documenting the campaign at the Republican and...

    Last Party 2000
  • 2012
    MLK: The Assassination Tapes

    MLK: The Assassination Tapes

    MLK: The Assassination Tapes

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    Relive an unspeakable tragedy detailed with unforgettable images, videos, and recordings only recently rediscovered.

    MLK: The Assassination Tapes
  • 2018
    Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

    Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

    Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

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    A documentary following the civil rights movement and how the media, in particular the burgeoning TV, was used to fight for equality in the 1960s....

    Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
  • 2016
    Fantastic Lies

    Fantastic Lies

    Fantastic Lies

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    One night in Durham, North Carolina, a rape accusation set fire to the reputations of three college athletes and their elite university. As the Duke...

    Fantastic Lies
  • 2020
    Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story

    Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story

    Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story

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    Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
  • 1973
    Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2

    Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2

    Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2

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    In the second film, the author tells about the struggle of blacks for the right to feel equal with all US citizens. Commentary of the mayor of Cairo,...

    Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
  • 2018
    The Road to Mass Incarceration

    The Road to Mass Incarceration

    The Road to Mass Incarceration

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    This video, The Road to Mass Incarceration, by Greenhouse Media summarizes criminal justice policy decisions dating back to the 1960s. Although the...

    The Road to Mass Incarceration
  • 2018
    Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America

    Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America

    Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America

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    When Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in Memphis, TN on April 4, 1968, he left a legacy of profound change, yet there was still much unfinished...

    Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
  • 2009
    Anecdotes about Fidel

    Anecdotes about Fidel

    Anecdotes about Fidel

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    23 Anecdotes that reveal a personal side of Fidel Castro, told by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Alicia Alonso, Alice Walter, Aleida, Che Guevara's...

    Anecdotes about Fidel
  • 1999
    The Subtext of a Yale Education

    The Subtext of a Yale Education

    The Subtext of a Yale Education

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    Two years in labor relations at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, during the decade of the 1990s.

    The Subtext of a Yale Education
  • 1969
    Operation Breadbasket

    Operation Breadbasket

    Operation Breadbasket

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    Actor Robert Culp narrates this special examining the use of boycotts by African-Americans as a way of obtaining jobs.

    Operation Breadbasket
  • 1971
    We Are Universal

    We Are Universal

    We Are Universal

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    1971 documentary short that surveys African American arts and culture, drawing inspiration from the “Black Is Beautiful” movement....

    We Are Universal
  • 2008
    Ballou

    Ballou

    Ballou

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    Ballou
  • 2021
    Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story

    Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story

    Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story

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    An inspiring portrait of the life and legacy of Jewish theologian and philosopher, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. Heschel was one of the most...

    Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
  • 2021
    September First, Twenty-Twenty

    September First, Twenty-Twenty

    September First, Twenty-Twenty

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    A witness to Kenosha Wisconsin's largest protest following the Jacob Blake shooting, september first, twenty-twenty. The same weekend Donald Trump...

    September First, Twenty-Twenty