The Films


The Appreciating Diversity Film Series endeavors to show six films each year. The following is a list of the films that we've shown since 1998. For a for a full description of all the films screened, please click here, as the titles with links below will take you to the website for each film. The Film Series also makes most of these titles available for loan through our Lending Library, and we encourage you to take advantage of this service. Lastly, the Film Series also encourages post-film dialogue and we have included some discussion guides for the films, where available.


1998

Skin Deep

Family Name

Twitch & Shout


1999

The Way Home

Raymond’s Portrait

Rabbit in the Moon

An American Love Story (1 part of 10)

Chicks in White Satin & Trevor


2000

Americanos

The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years

Follow Me Home

First Person Plural

Breathing Lessons & Disability Culture Rap


2001

Sound and the Fury

Girls Like Us

Boys Will be Men

Long Nights’ Journey into Day

Mai’s America


2002

Promises

Dying to be Thin

Blink

What Do You Believe?

Misunderstood Minds

Daddy & Papa


2003

Brothers & Others: The Impact of September 11th on Arabs, Muslims, and South Asians in America

Mai’s America

Race: The Power of an Illusion: The House We Live In

Strange Fruit

Kiss My Wheels


2004

Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary

Death of a Shaman

Death on a Friendly Border

You Don’t Know Dick

Unlikely Hero


2005

Lost Boys of Sudan

Brother Outsider

Beauty Before Age & Wet Dreams and False Images