This month Access World News*, also known as Newsbank, highlighted this article on "Movies to Watch for Black History Month." They listed nine movies. I went ahead and checked our library catalog, and I found that we have six of the nine films from the article. I am listing them below so you can check them out. In addition, if a movie is based on a book and/or has a companion book, and we have the book I am listing the book.

 

Cover ArtHidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Call Number: Stacks 510.925 S554h 2016
ISBN: 9780062363596
Publication Date: 2016-09-06
 The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil rights movement, whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space--a powerful, revelatory contribution that is as essential to our understanding of race, discrimination, and achievement in modern America as Between the World and Me and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The basis for the smash Academy Award-nominated film starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America's aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton, Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley's all-black "West Computing" group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens. Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country's future.  
 
You can find the film in our DVD collection with the call number: DVD 791.437 H6317 2017.
 
 
 
Cover ArtThe Hate U Give by Angie Thomas; Amandla Stenberg (Foreword by)
Call Number: Young Adult T4517ha 2017
ISBN: 9780062498533
Publication Date: 2017-02-28
 Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil's name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does--or does not--say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.
 
Find the film in our DVD collection with the call number: DVD 791.437 H3615 2018.
 
 
 
Selma (2015). Summary: "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964." Find it in our DVD Collection with call number DVD 791.437 S468 2015.

 

 

  Daughters of the Dust (2000). Summary: "Story of a large African-American family as they prepare to move North from the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia at the dawn of the 20th century." Find it in our DVD collection with call number DVD 791.437 D238 2000.

 

 

 

 

 

 

   Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013). Summary: "A butler tells the story of a White House [butler] who serves eight presidents over three decades. During his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society." 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Glory (2000). Summary: "Two idealistic young Bostonians lead the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, America's first Black regiment in the Civil War." Find it in the DVD collection with call number DVD 791.437 G562 2000 Discs 1-2 .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Access World News is one of our news databases. It provides "full text from nearly 3,700 U.S. and 2,300 International newspapers. Direct links are available to search Kentucky and Appalachian Region newspapers, major metro titles, international resources, newswires, broadcast transcripts, America's news magazines, world and US newspapers." You can find and access the database from the library homepage under "Electronic Resources." If you are off-campus, you will need to authenticate and log in with your Berea College credentials and DUO.