This month’s programming suggestions from Films On Demand can help students and researchers learn more about African American history and civil rights activist Rosa Parks, as well as the abortion debate, Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, and Britain’s great wartime leader, Winston Churchill. 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.
Noteworthy Titles for Black History Month
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Ken Burns: Jackie Robinson series (Item #129889)
- Black Is the Color (Item #133199)
- Althea (Item #129895)
- The Ferry: A Civil Rights Story (Item #142571)
- The Stories We Tell: Donna Brazile, Ty Burrell, Kara Walker—Finding Your Roots, Season 3 (Item #129879)
- August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand (Item #131269)
- Osun-Osogobo (Item #111654)
Birthday: Rosa Parks, February 4, 1913
Consider these titles for your classes:
- The Rosa Parks Story (Item #110309)
- Remembering Rosa Parks (Item #57908)
- Rosa Parks: African Americans Who Left their Stamp on History (Item #129520)
- Rosa Parks Trained for Life Full of Activism (Item #58052)
U.S. Supreme Court Decides in Roe v. Wade, January 22, 1973
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Moyers & Company: What’s Fueling the Modern Abortion Debate? (Item #52915)
- Inside Mississippi’s Lone Abortion Clinic series (Item #56115)
- Abortion: Stories Women Tell (Item #135601)
- The Abortion War: Thirty Years after Roe v. Wade (Item #32200)
- Abortion: Ancient and Modern (Item #118695)
Birthday: Sergei Eisenstein, Russian Film Pioneer, January 22, 1898
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Sergei Eisenstein (Item #6952)
- Eisenstein and Stalin: When Art and Politics Clash (Item #11128)
For subscribers to the World Cinema Collection, these and other masterpieces by Eisenstein are available:
- Battleship Potemkin (Item #57070)
- Strike (Item #57069)
- Ivan the Terrible (Item #56869)
- October (Item #57066)
In Britain’s Darkest Hour, There Was Winston Churchill (Died January 24, 1965)
Consider these titles for your classes:
- Winston Churchill (Item #42941)
- Churchill vs. Roosevelt (Item #36441)
- Churchill vs. Stalin (Item #36442)
- Winston Churchill, from the WPA Film Library Speeches Collection (Item #47798)
