Media Services would like to highlight these documentaries in January that are perfect for enriching teaching and research. Explore timely and impactful topics like Daytime Revolution (John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Television ), Green Border (Refugees, Belarus, Poland ) and Soundtrack to a Coup D’etat (African Studies, Film Studies, Music), all of which foster critical thinking and deeper student engagement.
All titles are freely available to the IU community via IUCAT. On and off-campus streaming is available with an IU CAS login.
Daytime Revolution (2024, 108min.) Director: Erik Nelson. Daytime Revolution takes us back in time to the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-hosted the Mike Douglas Show for five unforgettable episodes of television, with handpicked guests, including Yippie founder Jerry Rubin and Black Panther Chairman Bobby Seale, political activist Ralph Nadar and comic truth teller George Carlin.
Explore related titles in IUCAT such as: Pioneers of Television. Late Night.
Green Border (2024, 152min.) Director Agnieszka Holland. Oscar nominee Agnieszka Holland brings her masterful filmmaking eye and deep compassion to this portrait of the so-called “green border” between Belarus and Poland, where refugees are lured by government propaganda promising easy passage to the European Union.
Explore related titles in IUCAT such as: Decolonizing International Border Crossings
Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat (2024, 150min.) Director: Johan Grimonprez. Tells the story of the assassination of Congolese President Patrice Lumumba through the lens of jazz music, Johan Grimonprez’s acclaimed real-life Cold War thriller, the film intertwines jazz, espionage and colonialism, uncovering a scandal whose urgency is still resonant today.
Explore related titles in IUCAT such as: The Songs are Free Bernice Johnson Reagon and African American Music.
All images courtesy of KinoLorberFilms https://kinolorber.com/film/
Monique Threatt, Head, Media Services since 2001.
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