Movie Guides: Racial Justice

This collection of movie guides covers a wide variety of themes that appear in Social Studies classes.

1) The Help - Jim Crow laws

2) 13th - School to Prison pipeline, Racial profiling

3) A Class Apart - Should Mexican Americans be considered a protected class? Texas court case.

4) Defiance - True story of Bielski brothers who harboured Russian Jews during Holocaust

5) Freedom Riders - Montgomery bus boycotts, Civil Rights protest movement

6) Salam Neighbour - a vist to Syrian refugee camps in Jordan

7) The Other Side of Immigration - looks at those left behind in their home country

8) The True Cost - examines the garment industry, sweatshops and how fast fashion impacts the globe.

9) Walkout - East L.A. high school walkouts of 1968

10) Wetback- the Undocumented documentary - follows immigrants as they try to walk to the US and the obstacles they face.

11) Living on One Dollar- an experiment in living on a dollar a day in Guatemala.