Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. ~Albert Einstein
Feature Films
This list includes a number of movies touching on issues of race, identity, and social justice. Not all movies are appropriate for children, or are appropriate for classroom use. This is only a selection of the many films that can teach us about culture and diversity. If you would like to recommend a film for inclusion in the list, please contact us. Africa/African-American Amistad CNN Presents: Black in America Coexist (EDS) God Grew Tired of Us (EDS) Hotel Rwanda Invisible Children Lost Boys of Sudan 60 Minutes Special: The Lost Boys of Sudan American Indian American Indian Film Gallery Database Dakota 38 Dreamkeepter (N) The Education of Little Tree Independent Lens: PBS Native American Films In Whose Honor Ishi: The Last Yahi Link to Film Native American Boomtown PBS explores fracking on North Dakota Reservations Skins (N) Trail of Tears Unlearning “Indian” Stereotypes (EDS) Burma Burma VJ Happy World: A Surprisingly Funny Documentary about Burma (27 Minutes) Link The Lady They Call it Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain Civil Rights The Children’s March (EDS) Eyes on the Prize Freedom Riders Education The First Grader Higher Learning Papers Precious Knowledge Stand and Deliver Waiting for Superman Gender Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (EDS) Iron Jawed Angels Killing us Softly 3 MissRepresentation Not for Sale Hispanic Belle Epoque Cantinflas Che Director Pedro Almodovar (Volver, Talk to Her, The Skin I Live in, All About my Mother, etc.) Like Water for Chocolate Maria Full of Grace Netflixeando: 20 Latino Films You Should Stream on Netflix The Motorcycle Diaries Vicente Fernandez (celebrated Mexican actor and singer)--El Tahur, El arracadas, Por tu Maldito Amor, La Ley del Monte, etc. Immigration 9500 Liberty abUSed: The Postville Raid (EDS) A Day Without a Mexican The Graduates The New Americans El Norte The Other Side of Immigration (EDS) Sin Nombre The Visitor Which Way Home? LGBTQ Boys Don’t Cry Bullied: A Student, A School, and A Case that Made History GBF N The Laramie Project Out Late N Laurence Anyways N Tying the Knot Poverty The End of Poverty Waste Land N Why Poverty: PBS Documentary More Films from Why Poverty |
Ted Talks
Perspectives on Education · Chimamanda Adichie – Danger of a Single Story · Geoffrey Canada – Our Failing Schools: Enough is Enough · Angela Lee Duckworth – Key to Success · Arthur Benjamin – Magic of Fibonacci Numbers · Sir Ken Robinson – How Schools Kill Creativity · Dan Pink – Puzzle of Motivation · Temple Grandin – World needs all Kinds of Minds · Daphne Koller – What we’re learning from online education · Salman Khan – Let us use video to reinvent education · Susan Cain – Power of Introversion · Shimon Schocken – What a bike ride can teach you · Kathryn Schulz – Being Wrong · Rita Pierson – Every child needs a champion · Ramsey Musallam – 3 rules to spark learning · David Kelley – How to build your creative confidence · Tom Wujec – Marshmallow Challenge · James Flynn – IQ levels · Richard St. John – 8 secrets of success · Christopher Emdin – Teach teachers how to create magic · Ali Carr Chellman – Re-engaging boys Perspectives on Culture · Sam Richards: A Radical Experiment in Empathy · Melissa Fleming: Let’s help refugees thrive, not just survive · Clint Smith: The danger of silence · Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power · Paul Bloom: Can prejudice ever be a good thing? · Examining prejudice: An in-office TED session · TED Weekends says freedom is only half the battle · Taiye Selasi: Our passports don’t define us · Nate Silver: Picking apart the puzzle of racism in elections · TEDWeekends traces the origin of the All-American Chinese takeout · Pico Iyer: Where is home? · One Million Bones on the National Mall, · “Our Sudan” video inspires a new generation of Sudanese youth Emmanuel Jal: The Music of a War Child · 6 stunning photos from Giles Duley · Is math the language of the universe? A bilingual TED-Ed Club explores · Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity · Wade Davis: The worldwide web of belief and ritual · Who are we? Answers from Louise Leakey, Wade Davis, Jill Taylor, Stephen Hawking and Chris Jordan · Aaron Huey: America's native prisoners of war · Playlist: The quest to end poverty - Oren Yakobovich: Hidden cameras that film injustice in the world's most dangerous places |