Promotional Poster for Trial of the Chicago 7
Originally the Chicago Eight, the trial of the Chicago Seven was a highly publicized political trial of eight protestors against the Vietnam War and eight police officers beginning in 1969. On October of 1969, the eighth member of the protestors, Black Panther leader Bobby Seale, was bound and gagged in the courtroom by Judge Julius Hoffman after Seale protested the judge's denial of letting Seale use his own lawyer, Charles Garry, rather than the court appointed lawyers. Seale was subsequently removed from the case and sentenced to four years in prison for contempt of court.
Movie Poster for Glory
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was one of the Union Army's earliest black regiments in the American Civil War. Colonel Robert Gould Shaw was the regiment's commanding officer and was born into a prominent Boston abolitionist family. Glory utilizes Lincoln Kirstein's Lay This Laurel (1973), Peter Burchard's One Gallant Rush (1965), and Shaw's personal letters to depict the formation of the regiment to their actions at the Second Battle of Fort Wagner.
Movie Poster for Schindler's List
Born in Moravia (part of the "Sudetenland" region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Oskar Schindler settled in Krakow, Poland around 1939 shortly after the Germans invaded the country. By late 1942, Schindler's factory (previously a Jewish-owned enamelware factory) had around 800 employees with half of them being Jewish. In 1944, Schindler convinced the Nazi Party to allow him to set up another factory in Sudentenland. The factory was a cover in order for him to transfer 1,200 "employees" to the facility. The employees were actually Jewish people he assisted in escaping to Brunnlitz where they remained for the rest of the war.
Movie Still from Mississippi Burning
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were three activists who disappeared on the the night of June 21, 1964 in the town of Philidelphia, Mississippi. Schwerner and Chaney worked for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in nearby Meridian, and Goodman was a college student who had traveled to Mississippi as a volunteer for the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project. The three men were traveling from the charred remains of Neshoba County's Mt. Zion Baptist Church to Meridian when they were pulled over by law enforcement and arrested. They were escorted to the Philadelphia Jail around 4pm, paid their find and released from jail around 10pm, and never heard from again. Since kidnapping cases were under federal law, over the next several days, agents of the FBI would come to Mississippi to investigate and the case would eventually garner national attention.
Craig Benzine takes a look at the history of one of our most powerful mediums. Film has the ability to communicate with images, entertain, move us, frighten us, and so much more. From A Trip to the Moon to Captain America: Civil War, the history of film is really a history of humanity and Craig will do his best to lead you all through it. The goal of these videos is to have you:
