Movies: Lora Hays

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led ...

Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activist to world-renowned leader of the Civil Rights movement. Rare footage of King's speeches, protests,...

Documentary about early 20th-century photographer Lewis Hine, who helped to expose grim working conditions in American factories and mines, especially the abuse and exploitation of children by their employers. Later, he became the official photograph...

Black Like Me is the true account of John Griffin's experiences when he passed as a black man....

Benjamin Déboisé, a hatter, his salesman and a young man want to kidnap an American millionaire, put him in a bag and hold him to ransom. But they make a mistake: the fellow they find in the bag is not the millionaire himself, but his son...!...

A preacher teams up with a labor union organizer to help unionize the mill where he worked....

A documentary showing the struggle to bring electricity to rural areas of the United States....

An early ABC Afterschool Speical about an imaginative and determined 14-year-old Puerto Rican boy who builds a sailing ship to sail around Central Park. Followed in 1975 by the sequel "Santiago's America."...

This film conveys a sense of the forces that have shaped Spain over the centuries, including Roman, Islamic, and Catholic influences, and gives James Michener's analysis of the history, art, folklore, and architecture of the country....

A story of a young boy and his pet boa. The boa gets loose in a library and gives the viewer a snake’s-eye view of the facilities. We also learn about snakes and other members of the reptile family....