Celebrate Black History Month With the Mullins Library Multimedia Department

In celebration of Black History Month, the Multimedia Department in Mullins Library has compiled a list of streaming videos available to all students, staff and faculty. Physical items are also on display and available for checkout in MULN 463. 

Documentaries  

Black Boys illuminates the full humanity of Black men and boys in America. An intimate, inter-generational exploration, Black Boys strives for insight into Black identity and opportunity at the nexus of sports, education and criminal justice. 

The Central Park Five tells the story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park in 1989. 

Freedom Riders is the story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 Black and white Americans risked their lives—and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment—for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws, the Freedom Riders were met with bitter racism and mob violence along the way, testing their belief in nonviolent activism. 

The marches from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery to secure voting rights for black Americans are depicted in this docudrama set during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, which focuses on the actions of Martin Luther King Jr. 

A new PBS documentary, Slavery by Another Name, tells the story of the adapted forced labor practices that helped extend slavery long after the end of the Civil War. Gwen Ifill speaks with Douglas Blackmon, the film's co-executive producer, about this largely forgotten piece of history and the forces that propelled it. 

Souls of Black Girls explores how media images of beauty undercut the self-esteem of African American women. 

Teach Us All examines how the present-day United States education system fails to live up to that promise of desegregation as it slides back into a re-segregation of its modern schools. 

W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices tells the story of the long and remarkable life of Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois and offers unique insights into an eventful century in African American history. 

Movies 

A superhero known as Black Panther defends Wakanda, a technologically advanced country in Africa that has hidden itself away from the rest of the world.  

Bouncer Tony Lip is hired by African American musician Don Shirley to chauffer him around the Jim Crow South in 1962 for an eight-week concert tour in the Green Book. These mismatched men form a friendship as Tony learns first-hand the racism Don must endure to perform. 

Harriet tells the story of Harriet Tubman, from her escape from slavery to the dangerous missions she led, setting free hundreds of slaves through the Underground Railroad. 

Just Mercy follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley. One of his first, and most incendiary, cases is that of Walter McMillian, who, in 1987, was sentenced to die for the notorious murder of an 18-year-old girl, despite a preponderance of evidence proving his innocence and the fact that the only testimony against him came from a criminal with a motive to lie.  

Remember the Titans is about a football coach who tries to promote racial harmony among the players of a newly integrated high-school squad in early 1970s Virginia. 

Streaming Databases 

Check out the streaming databases Kanopy Streaming Services and AVON: Academic Video Online to find more Black History Month films.