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Bridge to Freedom provides the historical documentary behind the events that served as the narrative for Selma. Instead of a drama, the viewers receive an actual documentary that shows the confrontations between the marchers and the government. Like Selma, it highlights the violence, the deaths, and the beatings, but also goes further back in time to show society’s treatment of African Americans. Here, though, the focus is primarily on the Committee’s voter registration initiative starting in 1964. This documentary provides a more historical perspective, and offers glimpses into the strategies used in Selma, Alabama to obtain social change. It shows how those within the group questioned the effectiveness of the protests and the march, and
confirms Selma’s portrayal the brutal attacks done by those seeking to keep African Americans from exercising their right to vote. It shows the results of such strategies, and the riots that occurred following the movement’s victory. This is unlike Selma, which seemed to depict an all around success. This documentary shows that there still exists work to be done in the fight for equality, while Selma closes the narrative on a positive note, where only those who are interested can find out what truly happened in the aftermath. As a documentary, it does not try to entertain like Selma or tell a story with a true ending like Selma. It presents the facts of the movement, and then shows how uncertain the future is for minorities. It does not try to provide for a happy ending as it recognizes that there is still work to be done.
This shows us how white people thought of African Americans as inferior, and they just wanted to dominate the society making no place for other races to express themselves. Even though African Americans were citizens of the state of Mississippi they were still discriminated against. This documentary does a great job of showing us the suffering of these people in hopes to remind everyone, especially the government, to not make the same mistakes and discriminate against citizens no matter what their race is because this will only cause a division to our nation when everyone should be
Despite the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the active attempts of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to register the Black voters of Alabama no significant progress was made . One such place was Selma Alabama. This small southern town of 29,000 soon became the focal point of the Civil Rights movement. Of the 15,156 blacks in Dallas County, Alabama only 156 were registered to vote. On January 2, 1965 Reverend King visited Selma and gave a fiery speech in it he stated: "Today marks the beginning of a determined organized, mobilized campaign to get the right to vote everywhere in Alabama."
Sobel, Lester A. “Vote Campaign in Selma.” Civil Rights 1960-66. New York: Facts on File 1967.
The Laramie Project should be used in the Museum of Tolerance, because of the impact it had on me and it described how the tragedy happened in Laramie.
The documentary Tapped uncovers the truths about the bottled water industry giants and the negative effect of water mining and the bottles themselves is causing to people and the environment. Currently the world is made up of 75% of water but only one percent of it is drinkable. This film tries to shed light on the fact that many well-known companies like Nestlé and Pepsi are just stealing tap water and turning around to make a profit. Even the item that is being used to hold water is also having negative affects too. The chemicals like PET and BPA are in the bottles that water comes in and both of these chemicals are known to cause serious health risk to humans. Even with all the truth and evidence that is in this film the FDA still doesn’t want to accept it.
Documentary theater, sometimes referred to as verbatim theater, attempts to bring social issues to the stage. Many times, theater has a hard time staying current and discussing the issues of today, and although some might argue that theater should an escape from the problems of the world, documentary theater’s aims to bring to light. If given the opportunity to create a documentary theater piece, I think it would be really interesting to talk about immigration to the United States. The United States was built, in part, by immigrants—and the nation has long been the beneficiary of the new energy and ingenuity that immigrants bring. Today, over 13 percent of the nation’s residents are foreign-born.
The documentary One of Us, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, is a film that details three main characters and their journey away from the Hasidic community in Brooklyn, New York. The film was released on Netflix this year in an effort to reach a large audience of American viewers. The film sets out to illustrate the dark side of the Hasidic community in order to encourage the audience to take action in protecting and understanding ex-Hasidic Jews in America.
The McDonald’s Corporation, the largest fast food chain in the world, was once known as a carefree place for people to consume a cheap and convenient meal. However, in the last decade, the restaurant has transformed into the main representation of global obesity. In 2004, an expository documentary was released that gave audiences a chance to view the effects of consuming an excessive amount of fast food from McDonald’s. This film, Supersize Me, effectively delivers significant amounts of ‘infotainment’ through commentary and interviews in order to entertain its viewers. Although it is argued that the film is an exaggeration of the traditional American lifestyle, it has caused huge debate within the public sphere and changed the fast food industry forever. The main point of my essay is to argue how even though this documentary is a construction of reality, viewers still respond to it on the faith that it strives to be accurate in the representation of reality.
With a speech given by Malcom X threatening people and calling all friend and foe to vote. He pleads with his fellow listeners let your voice be heard, with his speech known as, “The Ballot or the Bullet” (Malcom X) “Mr. Moderator, Brother Lomax, brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out. The question tonight, as I understand it, is "The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here? or What Next?" In my little humble way of understanding it, it points toward either the ballot or the bullet.” DR. Martin Luther King Jr. is also pleading with his followers to use their right to vote with his speech “Our God is Marching on” (Our) “Our whole campaign in Alabama has been centered around the right to vote. In focusing the attention of the nation and the world today on the flagrant denial of the right to vote, we are exposing the very origin, the root cause, of racial segregation in the Southland.” And last but not least the urging of President Lyndon B. Johnson to work diligently to pass the vote. Lyndon B. Johnson urges the passage of the Voting Rights Act, (Connect) “And we ought not, and we cannot, and we must not wait another eight months before we get a bill. We have already waited 100 years and more and the time for waiting is gone. So I ask you to join me in working long hours and
The form of documentary films has been a very powerful platform in engaging people with the real and historical world. Documentary films are one of the most noteworthy techniques for which individuals find out about actual stories and real people. The literature of documentary filmmaking offers four different approaches that researchers have used to study this genre. One approach is related to cultural production that determines and shapes the form of documentary film such as subject depictions, stylistic conventions, and public interpretation of a film. A second approach is related to the societal impact of a film in reframing news coverage and policy debate. A third approach is the interaction of a documentary film with civil society and democracy. And the fourth is the ethical issues that make the core of documentaries. This last approach, the ethical understanding of the making of documentaries is the area that this paper will focus upon (ex, Nichols, 1991, 2001; Sanders, 2010; Maccarone, 2010; Nash, 2011; Butchart, 2006). The ethical concerns in documentary practice rest upon two important constituents: 1) subjects who are filmed in documentaries; 2) and the viewers. Nisbet and Aufderheide (2009) claimed that the study of the ethical challenges related to documentary filmmaking is important to promote public life and civic culture. Next, I will examine the scholars’ discussion on the ethical responsibilities surrounding the making of the documentary films.
Between1961 and 1964 student non-violent coordinating committee [SCLC] had led a voting registration campaign in Selma a small town known
Recently, there is a spike of historical films being released lately. One of the films is an Academy Award nominee for “Best Picture,” Selma. The film, Selma, is based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches. The film shows the struggles of the black community face with the blockage of their voting rights and the racial inequality during the civil rights movement. Selma is about civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. heading to the rural Alabama City, Selma, to secure the voting rights for the African American community by having a march to Montgomery. It shows the struggles from what the African American community had to endured during the 1960s. Selma shows a social significance to today’s current events, specifically
In Bill Nichols’s “Introduction to Documentary”, he categorizes six different modes for documentary filmmaking. The poetic mode, expository mode, observational mode, participatory mode, reflexive mode, and performative mode. My paper is going to describe particular artists, often associated with the documentary filmmaking style, and how they used the “observational mode” as a way to explore their understanding of place through time.
The process of applying a definition to documentary filmmaking is in short; arduous. The term documentary is often used alongside and sometimes interchangeably with the term ‘non-fiction film’. This is due to the two modes sharing an element of non-fictional content, which is not to be confused with ‘non-narrative’ filmmaking. Non-narrative films in contrast to the documentary, are concerned with the absence of narration and ultimately strive to be nonrepresentational. Non-fiction film juxtaposes this aspect, as they attempts to provide a representation for physical reality. The non-fiction filmmaker records subjectively through the camera lens and interprets the world without altering the reality. However, defining the documentary is difficult
I believe this in movie there are multiple documentary approaches. One of the main approaches throughout this movie was a propaganda film because it was letting their audience know about the incarceration that is taking place and how it’s another form of slavery, just like segregation and Jim Crow laws. It also talked about how the 13th amendment is the cause of the high rate of people of color being incarcerated. During the movie, the multiple speakers talk about facts and different events that drew them to the conclusion they have about the correlation between African Americans and Hispanic people and prison. But through those facts it also allowed the viewers to hear recording from government officials that stated their plan was to imprison