This month’s programming suggestions from Films On Demand can help students and researchers study the D-Day Allied invasion of Europe, Brown v. Board of Education, and the Indian Removal Act of 1830 as well as get ready for LGBT Pride Month, which is coming up in June. Subscribers can also explore the complete calendar (accessible via the menu in the header, top left of the platform) for the year’s milestones, holidays, and events—a handy source for ideas throughout the year.
Remembering the D-Day Allied Invasion of Europe, June 6, 1944
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Pride of Our Nation (June 1944–August 1944) (Item #44295)
- The Soldier’s Story (Item #54308)
- From D-Day to the Rhine (Item #4903)
- Bill Moyers Journal: D-Day Revisited (Item #37442)
- Omaha Beach: Battleline (Item #42425)
- Breakout from Normandy: The Lost Evidence (Item #42406)
- The Men and the Machines That Beat Hitler series (Item #57592)
Supreme Court Decides Brown v. Board of Education, May 17, 1954
Consider these titles for your classes:
- The Road to Brown (Item #49761)
- Black/White & Brown: Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka (Item #40082)
- Hoxie: The First Stand (Item #57867)
- A Struggle for Educational Equality: 1950–1980 (Item #11764)
President Andrew Jackson Signs the Indian Removal Act, May 28, 1830
Consider these titles for your classes:
- The Unfinished Nation—Legacy of an Autocratic Ruler (Item #71417)
- The Presidents: 1825–1849 (Item #43175)
- Westward: America—The Story of Us (Item #43276)
- To Conquer or Redeem: Manifest Destiny (Item #51868)
June Is LGBT Pride Month
Consider these titles for your classes:
- When I Knew (Item #39806)
- Global Gay (Item #58153)
- Rocking the Cradle: Gay Parenting (Item #38758)
- Being Gay: Coming Out in the 21st Century (Item #30935)
- Why Thee Wed? Gay Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage (Item #35615)
- TEDTalks: Yoruba Richen—What the Gay Rights Movement Learned from the Civil Rights Movement (Item #66260)
