This website has been created specifically with our country's teachers in mind. Here you'll find an array of films and documentaries which deal with historical and socially relevant themes, along with teaching guides that will help facilitate classroom discussion.
A sprawling epic that brings a contemporary perspective to a seminal moment in history, this epic seven-part miniseries explores the extraordinary life and times of one of America's least understood, and most underestimated, founding fathers: the second President of the United States, John Adams.
Explores the tragic impact that the United States' westward expansion had on American Indian culture, and the economic, political and social pressures that motivated it.
Stirring true story of the Chicano students of East LA, who in 1968 staged several dramatic walkouts in their high schools to protest academic prejudice and dire school conditions.
Set against the awesome, harsh landscapes of South Africa, Yesterday is an eloquent, unsentimental film about an impoverished South African woman who courageously deals with a diagnosis of AIDS.
Over the past 100 years, the mass consumption of fossil fuels, especially in America, has contributed to a dangerous warming of the earth that has adversely impacted the way we live. This cautionary documentary offers a guide to the effects of global warming in the United States.
