A Tale of Two Schools: Race and Education on Long Island. 2011. Film-maker ERASE Racism.

Documentary on two African American teenagers who as the result of the educational disparities they experience end up going to two different colleges.

 

Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary. 1997. Film-maker Laura Simon. POV/American Documentary, Inc.

Documentary on Proposition 187.

 

Skin Deep: Building Diverse Campus Communities. 1995. Film-maker Frances Reid. Iris Films.

Film presents the journey of a diverse group of college students as they confront each other’s prejudice.

 

Three-part journalistic documentary on the dropout crisis:

Middle School Moment, Frontline July 17, 2012. 

Omarina’s Story, Frontline, July 15, 2014. 

The Education of Omarina, Frontline, September 13, 2016. 

 

Remixing Colorblind, 2016, Producer Sheena C. Howard. 

Examines how the educational system influences our notions of race and ethnicity.

 

America Divided Series: The Class Divide. 2016. Executive Producers Norman Lear, Shonda Rhimes, and Common. Epix. 

Docu-series on inequality in education, housing, healthcare, labor, criminal justice, and the political system.

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