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American History Association Collection

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Lakota Nation vs. United States
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Lakota Nation vs. United States
The Lakota people's ongoing fight to reclaim the Black Hills is explored, focusing on U.S. treaty violations, land dispossession, and Indigenous resistance through historical and legal perspectives.
Director: Jesse Short Bull | Laura Tomaselli
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 130 min.
Year of production: 2022
Activism American History Conflicts Colonialism Ecology, Environment Ethnography Genocide History Law and Justice Native American Studies Nature and Wildlife Politics Social Justice
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SHOAH
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SHOAH
Twelve years in the making, SHOAH is Lanzmann’s monumental epic on the Holocaust and features interviews with survivors, bystanders and perpetrators in 14 countries
Director: Claude Lanzmann
Language: English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 274+293 min.
Year of production: 1985
European History Genocide History Holocaust Human Rights Jewish Studies War
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Bending the Arc
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Bending the Arc
In the 1980s, three young people barely out of their teens began a movement that would change global health forever. Bending the Arc tells their story.
Director: Kief Davidson | Pedro Kos
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 102 min.
Year of production: 2017
African Cinema and Culture Anthropology Biography COVID-19 Current Affairs Health Human Rights Personal Story Poverty
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Cathedrals of Culture
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Cathedrals of Culture
"If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?" This 3D film project about the soul of buildings allows six iconic and very different buildings to speak for themselves.
Director: Wim Wenders | Michael Glawogger | Michael Madsen | Robert Redford | Margreth Olin | Karim Ainouz
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 6 x 26 min.
Year of production: 2014
Arts and Culture Creative Society Urbanism
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Vienna’s Lost Daughters
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Vienna’s Lost Daughters
The exceptional story of eight women who left their native Vienna during the war as part of the Kinder Transport and remade their lives in New York City
Director: Mirjam Unger
Language: English, German (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 87 min.
Year of production: 2007
Biography History Immigration and Migration Jewish Studies Personal Story Women
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I Am a Woman Now
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I Am a Woman Now
The story of the first generation of transsexuals, as told by five women who underwent gender-affirming surgery in 1950s Casablanca.
Director: Michiel van Erp
Language: Dutch, English, French, German (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 86/55 min.
Year of production: 2011
Anthropology Gender Health LGBTQIA+ Sexuality Society Women
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John Lewis: Good Trouble
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John Lewis: Good Trouble
A fascinating look into the life and times of U.S representative and activist, John Lewis. Using interviews and rare archival footage the film delivers an intimate account of Lewis's legacy and contribution to the Civil Rights Movement
Director: Dawn Porter
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 98 min.
Year of production: 2020
Activism Biography Current Affairs History Human Rights Law and Justice Personal Story Politics
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OYATE
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OYATE
OYATE elevates the voices of Indigenous People , in the wake of the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests, as they are using their newfound platform to shed light on the wide array of injustices committed against them in an effort to embark upon the process of decolonization.
Director: Brandon Jackson | Emil Benjamin
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 91 min.
Year of production: 2022
American History Climate Change Conflicts Colonialism Ecology, Environment Ethnography Human Rights Law and Justice Native American Studies Politics Social Justice
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DOLORES
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DOLORES
Dolores Huerta fought tirelessly alongside Chavez for racial and labor justice and became one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century. The fight continues...
Director: Peter Bratt
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 96 min.
Year of production: 2017
Activism American History Biography Human Rights Immigration and Migration Labor Latin American Studies Women
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Death and the Maiden
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Death and the Maiden
Shortly after World War II, over 1000 paintings were found in a Cellar in southern France, by a Young-Jewish artist called Charlotte Salomon
Director: Yael Lotem
Language: English, Hebrew (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 30 min.
Year of production: 2014
Arts and Culture Biography Creative European History History Holocaust Jewish Studies
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The Art of Museums (series)
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The Art of Museums (series)
Blurring the boundaries between entertainment and high culture, this series takes the viewer into a fine selection of world’s most renowned museums.
Director: Julie Kirchhoff, Sylvie Kürsten, Ralf Pleger, Kurt Mayer
Language: English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 8x52 min.
Year of production: 2018
Arts and Culture
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The Look of Silence
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The Look of Silence
In this highly-anticipated companion to The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer offers another haunting look at the Indonesian genocide, this time from the perspective of the victims.
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Language: Indonesian, Javanese (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 99 min.
Year of production: 2014
Asian Studies Cinema Conflicts Ethnography Family Genocide Human Rights Investigative Journalism Law and Justice Politics Society
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The Case Against 8
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The Case Against 8
A behind-the-scenes look inside the historic case to overturn California's ban on same-sex marriage. The high-profile trial first makes headlines with the unlikely pairing of Ted Olson and David Boies, political foes who last faced off as opposing attorneys in Bush v. Gore
Director: Ben Cotner | Ryan White
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 112 min.
Year of production: 2013
American History Anthropology Conflicts Gender History Human Rights LGBTQIA+ Politics
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Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
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Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
The history of the "Scottsboro Boys," a group of African American men who were victims of a racist miscarriage of justice that became a national controversy.
Director: Barak Goodman
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 84 min.
Year of production: 2000
American History Crime History Human Rights Law and Justice Politics
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Driving While Black
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Driving While Black
A ground-breaking examination of the history of African Americans on the road from the early 1900’s through the 1960’s and beyond - a crucial window on issues of class, automobile culture, discrimination and national identity
Director: Gretchen Sorin | Ric Burns
Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
Running Time: 57 + 69 min.
Year of production: 2020
African American Studies American History Current Affairs History Law and Justice Social Justice Society
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