Documentary Analysis Worksheet

I learned a lot from it I think the movie is helpful. I personally did not know

1. What do you think is the most important thing you learned from this documentary?

" I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail." Said Sojourner Truth during one of her battles for freed slave rights. Truth was born as a slave in which after 30 years she escaped. After she dedicated her life to helping freed slaves get their rights along with women's rights. Sojourner Truth is a hero to not only women, but to everyone because she changed America for women and color people by being brave, determined, and Godly.

1) After viewing the 13th documentary, I felt helpless, inspired, and stirred to action. Throughout the film, it shows the crucial way white people mistreated black people and how blacks had little to no freedom in America.The message of the film is hopeful and inspiring because it shows that if you want change, you have to fight for it and stand up for yourself. The blacks started to fight for themselves and their rights.

Although the film was extremely upsetting, I thoroughly enjoyed watching this movie because I learned so much. Throughout the entirety of the film, I felt heartbroken and ashamed. I think I felt this way because being a white, upper-middle class individual, I have never experienced anything similar to what Africans Americans go through daily.

After watching this movie, it gave me an appreciation of where I am from and all ancestors before me. This is definitely a movie that I recommend every black person watch. The movie was well written.

First of all, Truth was a bold and strong woman, she encountered multiple beating and terrible acts on a daily basis. During her years as a slave she was beaten and tortured every day until she finally escaped with her infant daughter in 1826. Sojourner continued to try to end slavery and spread equality throughout the world by giving speeches about freedom and

After watching 13th it didn't make me upset at all, it made me very sorrowful, to see some of the things that African Americans had to go through. I wonder how it would feel to be kidnapped and brought to another country, to be enslaved and then freed to only be, enslaved in a different way. Know that I have watched this documentary it oped my eyes on why things are how they are know. Everything that they said in the documentary was linked together one way or another, it’s like putting together a puzzle with a lot of pieces. One thing that really stuck with me from the documentary was when they were saying that, a lot of the african american leaders around the 1960 were either killed, imprisoned or fled the country and that's why there is not a lot of African American civil right leaders, because maybe people seen what happened to the civil right activist and didn't want the same thing to happen to them. After all I don’t blame them I would want to play it safe to. On the other hand I don’t feel

It was amazing to see how much Ella Baker was ahead of her time. She was a strong, independent woman decades before there was a women's movement. I was very interested in the issues that she had with Dr. Martin Luther King and his style of leadership. To me it was important to see that not all the leaders agreed but knew to respect each other because they were fighting for the same cause. It was also interesting to see how Ella Baker still contributed to organizations that were not doing thing her way in order to help build coalitions. This I feel was in important factor in the success of many organizations during the movement.

She begins by showing the reader how the justice system is portrayed to the public eye through the media. The details how it created a falsified view of our penal system. She compares them to previous films that portrayed blacks as happy in an oppressed system. I felt that this was an excellent way to get her point across. It made me reevaluate many of the shows that I watched and even loved.

As said before, the film was advanced for its time because of its racial representation. The film premiered at the end of the civil rights movement. It featured a black man as the main protagonist. He was the hero of the story instead of the villain. This was a huge step towards more diversity in films. This, unfortunately, is still a problem in movies.

One aspect I found in the movie that was inspiring is the way each character used their voice to express their beliefs. This movie made me realize that your voice is your most powerful tool. In the movie, a group of negroes went to different schools to debate on a variety of topics. In many aspects, the debates gave the negro’s a voice and enabled them to share their thoughts and beliefs about racial discrimination. Especially in times of racial discrimination, negroes were looked at as defenseless and inferior. For example, in The Great Debaters one black man was lynched by a mob of white people. During the final debate, James Farmer Jr. was able to use his memory of the man being lynched to support his argument. Not only did opening up

In the light of, the director makes good points through the whole movie about what they went through. I like this movie because it gives me more information of the people who were involved or who were there during that time. Like, Ann Lee Coper (Oprah Winfrey), Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo), and the rest of the people who help fight for African Americans to be able to vote. The movie also shows the difficult and the happy time they went through. Even the problems with their family. No matter what’s going on, they were still focus and full invested in having freedom. What I learned from this movie was that they did not let all the obstacles of what they went through mess up their main goal because of that I am able to take those lesson for my

What an eye-opening film by Steven Spielberg! The movie, La Amistad, was based on historical events. Blacks from West Africa were captured and sold into slavery. They were put on a boat called the Tecora and later transferred to the clipper called La Amistad. Spielberg did a beautiful job in accurately recreating the events that lead to the historical court hearings of the imprisoned blacks. The hearings began at the state level. Then it was taken to the Supreme Court. Questions about slavery, equality, and freedom, sprung forth during the Amistad case. Not only was this case a milestone for the abolitionist movement, it also questioned the writings of the Declaration of Independence. Where all men created equal, like the constitution

The movie “Winnie Mandela” was a movie that caught my attention, but it left me wanting to know more about Winnie as well as the relationship between Winnie and Nelson and their two daughters. I really think the movie was worth watching because it made me aware of the struggles people went through in South Africa, especially amongst the people that were using nonviolent protesting. However, I felt as if there was not enough information given. I had to look up more information because I wanted to know more besides what the movie gave me. I read about Nelson Mandela, but I never read about or watched a movie on Winnie Mandela and her life story. Thus, I will write about my reactions towards the movie, as well as how Winnie was a woman in a social movement.