Each month, the Library Film Series highlights a different theme. All of the films are available to stream on one of the library's streaming services.
Students, faculty, and staff are invited to watch the film in LRC231 and join the discussion in person or on Blackboard Collaborate. Please select the film to receive more information about show times, locations. To learn how to use our streaming services, CLICK HERE.
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Generation 9/11 marks the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks by telling the stories of seven young people whose fathers were killed that day. The film explores how a man they never met and an event they didn’t witness have shaped their worldview and the world around them. Their experiences reflect those of an entire generation, whose lives so far have been bracketed by crisis. Patriot Day Research Guide
Date: September 11, 2023
Showing Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Discussion Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Discussion Leader: Kim Lancaster
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The Graduates / Los Graduados explores pressing issues in education today through the eyes of six Latinx students from across the United States. Presented over two nights, the film follows six teenagers — three girls and three boys — each with their own unique obstacles to overcome.
Date: October 4, 2023
Showing Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Discussion Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Discussion Leader: Sara Lowman
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The Warrior Tradition tells the astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely untold of Native Americans in the United States military. Why would Indian men and women put their lives on the line for the very government that took their homelands? The film relates the stories of Native American warriors from their own points of view – stories of service and pain, of courage and fear.
Date: November 8, 2023
Showing Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Discussion Time: 1:30 PM -2:30 PM
Discussion Leader: Kellie French
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Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line. Told through the eyes of Lack's daughter Deborah (Oprah Winfrey) and a journalist, the film chronicles Deborah's search to learn about the mother she never knew, and how the unauthorized harvesting of Lacks' cancerous cells in 1951 led to medical breakthroughs. Johns Hopkins Medicine: The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks
Date: February 21, 2024
Showing Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (LRC 231)
Discussion Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM (BT 101)
Discussion Leaders: Armena McNair, Alexander Jackson, Angel Alicea
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Robert Gagno is currently one of the top ten pinball players in the world. But there’s more to him than just being a pinball wizard. At the age of three, Robert was diagnosed with autism. Through the international pinball competition circuit he's found a community that has helped him develop self-worth, social skills and confidence in new environments. At the same time Robert has showed many that he's more than the label society places on him.
Date: March 13, 2024
Showing Time: 12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Discussion Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Discussion Leader: Nancy White
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