Black Power Mixtape (2011)
This 2011 documentary combines historical footage with interviews, stock photos and analysis with notable African-American activists, artists and historians about the rise of the Black Power Movement in America from 1967 to 1975. There is footage of Bobby Seale, Martin Luther King Jr., interviews with Angela Davis, Kathleen Cleaver and others who were a part of the movement, as well as social commentary from contemporary artists like Erykah Badu and Talib Kweli. The historical footage was shot by journalists from Sweden and was recovered from the cellar of STV (a Swedish television network) nearly 30 years after it was originally shot.
Nine From Little Rock (1964)
This short documentary won the Academy Award in 1965 for Documentary Short Subject. It chronicles the experiences of the nine students selected to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. The film is only 20 minutes long and was narrated by one of the original nine, Jefferson Thomas, who died in 2010. Director Charles Guggenheim was nominated for another Academy Award in the same category for Children Without, another film short that chronicled the African-American experience in Detroit’s public housing.
