Nine from Little Rock
1964 film
- 1964 (1964)
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Nine from Little Rock is a 1964 American short documentary film directed by Charles Guggenheim about the Little Rock Nine, the first nine African-American students to attend an all-white Arkansas high school in 1957.
Production
The film was commissioned by George Stevens Jr. of the United States Information Agency.[1][2] The film is narrated by Jefferson Thomas, one of the Little Rock Nine, who died in 2010.[3]
Accolades
The film won Guggenheim his first Oscar at the 37th Academy Awards, held in 1965, for Documentary Short Subject. He was also nominated in the same category the same year for Children Without.[4][5]
Cast
- Jefferson Thomas as himself – Narrator (also archive footage)
- Ernest Green as himself (also archive footage)
- Thelma Mothershed as herself (also archive footage)
See also
References
- ^ Encyclopedia of Arkansas
- ^ “It's Only Convincing If They Say It Is”: Documenting Civil Rights Progress in the USIA's Nine from Little Rock on JSTOR
- ^ "The Charles Guggenheim Collection". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
- ^ "The 37th Academy Awards (1965) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved June 25, 2016.
- ^ Documentary Winners: 1965 Oscars
External links
- Nine from Little Rock at IMDb
- Nine from Little Rock on YouTube, posted by the National Archives and Records Administration
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Films directed by Charles Guggenheim
- A City Decides (1956)
- The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959)
- The Fisherman and His Soul (1961)
- Nine from Little Rock (1964)
- Children Without (1965)
- Monument to the Dream (1967)
- Robert Kennedy Remembered (1968)
- Jerusalem Lives (1973)
- John F. Kennedy: 1917-1963 (1979)
- HR 6161: An Act of Congress (1979)
- A Place to Be (1979)
- High Schools (1983)
- Yorktown (1983)
- The Making of Liberty (1986)
- The Johnstown Flood (1989)
- Island of Hope, Island of Tears (1989)
- Journey to America (1989)
- LBJ: A Remembrance (1990)
- A Life: The Story of Lady Bird Johnson (1992)
- A Time for Justice (1994)
- Clear Pictures (1994)
- D-Day Remembered (1994)
- The Shadow of Hate (1995)
- Harry S. Truman: 1884-1972 (1997)
- A Place in the Land (1998)
- Witnesses (1998)
- Life in the Shadows (1999)
- The First Freedom (1999)
- Berga: Soldiers of Another War (2003)
