Skip to Main Content

Black History Month Resources: Videos and other Media

Videos Available Through Fogler Library

Barack Obama: Finding Hope (Director's Cut)
by Robert Yuhas
The Black Church: Hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
PBS. Two Episodes
The Black Panthers : Vanguard of the Revolution
by Stanley Nelson
Civil Rights Pioneer Ruby Bridges on Activism in The Modern Era
PBS
The Hidden Cost of Black Hair
The Economist
I Rise
PBS
In the Words of Frederick Douglass
by Tony Brown
Isaac Pope: The Spirit of an American Century
by Rock Grant
John Lewis: Good Trouble
by Dawn Porter
MLK/FBI
by Sam Pollard
Muhammad Ali
by Ken Burns. Episode one of four. Search 'Round Two,' 'Round Three,' and 'Round Four' for subsequent episodes.
Roots: A History Revealed
by Anthony Giacchino
Standing on my Sister's Shoulders
by Robert Sadoff, Joan Sadoff, and Laura J. Lipson
While I Breathe, I Hope
by Emily Harrold

You can find more videos about Black history and culture on Academic Video Online Premium.

Videos

Find more videos from TED

Black History Month and Maine - Videos

More information about "Being Black in Maine: Lived Experience and the Prospect for Change" from U Maine Special Collections

Podcasts and Audio