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Documentaries and such

  • Films from The Work of the People: Their films are usually very short (sometimes just a couple of minutes) and very thought provoking. The series are good for Sunday school classes. Most of them come with discussion guides. Find them at https://www.theworkofthepeople.com.

    • COVENANTAL RESTORATION - A 12-session film series on race and faith with Bryan Stevenson, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, Terry LeBlanc, James Forbes, Reggie Williams, Simone Campbell, and others.

    • PAIN TO POSSIBILITY - Marlon Hall talks about the Black church's gift to create space to nurture pain and lament into possibility.

    • HEALING JUSTICE - Jennifer Bailey, Micky ScottBey Jones, and Robyn Henderson-Espinoza on racism, white supremacy and the struggle to be whole...to be one...and MORAL IMAGINATION with Jennifer, Micky, and Robyn on the dominant theology of white supremacy. Created in friendship with the Faith Matters Network.

    • BUILDING THE SOUL OF A CITY- Sociologist, Michael O. Emerson talks about the history of race and immigration in this film series created with our friends at projectCURATE.

    • BUILDING EMPIRES - Kathy Khang on what the dominant, white, Western, Christians learn from marginalized voices... and OUT OF TUNE with Kathy on what the white church needs to be liberated from.

    • CRUCIFIED REALITIES - Kelly Brown Douglas on "stand your ground culture" and the violent narratives of white supremacy..and PREFERENTIAL OPTION FOR FREEDOM with Kelly on God's preferential option for freedom and the violent narratives of white supremacy...and CALLING OUT FOR LIFE with Kelly on God, faith, and justice.

    • LOVE DISTORTED - Grace Ji-Sun Kim on the systems created by whiteness, patriarchy, and the imagination of conquest that lead to death.

    • AN INVITATION INTO AN ALTERNATIVE REALITY - Has the Gospel and the call of Christ been sanitized?  Why did Jesus chose to come as a marginalized person? Dominique D Gilliard on reconciliation and the good news of the Gospel and the invitation into an alternative reality.

    • HOARDING LOVE - Emilie Townes on the cultural production of evil.

    • CORRECTING INEQUITY - Is reconciliation and social justice just an extracurricular activity of the church? Curtiss Paul DeYoung thoughts on justice and salvation.

    • WHY WE SHARE THE GOOD NEWS - William Barber, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, and Shane Claiborne invite us to consider evangelism through fascination, not force.

    • PROPHETIC INTRUSIONS AND LAMENT - What narratives are Churches failing to offer? Soong-Chan Rah on bringing back the narratives that intrude and disrupt the world around us.

    • THE VERY GOOD GOSPEL - Lisa Sharon Harper's vision for a broken world - The Very Good News.

    • LEGITIMATING POWER AND UNDERWRITING VIOLENCE - Stanley Hauerwas on what he hates - people who legitimate their power and the Church which has been know to underwrite war and violence.

    • GO ALONG TO GET ALONG - Is the role of the church to survive?  Barbara A. Holmes on the church missing out on a prophetic moment...and A CONTEMPLATIVE MOMENT with Barbara on how contemplative prayer births prophetic proclamation and action. Hear what you are unwilling to hear. Don't be afraid. The peace will hold you.

    • MAKE AMERICA GRATEFUL AGAIN - Diana Butler Bass and getting rid of the political and spiritual pyramids that exclude and taking on the other story of abundance that is formed around the Table.

    • AMERICA'S UNHOLY GHOSTS - A short film with our friend Joel Edward Goza on the racist roots of our faith and politics.

    • VALIDATING SUFFERING - Prominent immigrant rights activist, and Dreamer, Marco Saavedra's thoughts on his dream, the American dram, and God's dream.

    • PLACE - Placeless people are neighbors. Walter Brueggemann on finding neighborhood for everyone. Part of the film series Materiality as Resistance.

  • The Meaning of the Birmingham Tragedy, 1963 with James Baldwin, Reinhold Niebuhr and Thomas Kilgore

  • Why Do Racist Symbols Have to Go? - Union Presbyterian Seminary Forum

  • Bill Moyers with Dr. James Forbes

  • Bill Moyers with James Cone ... the cross and the lynching tree

  • Panel discussion hosted by Union Presbyterian Seminary. 

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Movies and TV

  • 13th

  • Just Mercy

  • Selma

  • Twelve Years a Slave

  • If Beale Street Could Talk

  • The Help

  • Hidden Figures

  • I Am Not Your Negro

  • The African Americans - Many Rivers To Cross (PBS);

  • Two Black Men a Week;  

  • Just Mercy

  • United Shades of America - documentary-style TV series on CNN, hosted by W. Kamau Bell. 

  • “When They See Us” - four part series on Netflix about Central Park Five.

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