Nine from Little Rock is a 1964 American short documentary film directed by Charles Guggenheim about the Little Rock Nine, the first nine African-American students to attend an all-white Arkansas high school in 1957.
Production The film was commissioned by George Stevens Jr. of the United States Information Agency.Encyclopedia of Arkansas“It's Only Convincing If They Say It Is”: Documenting Civil Rights Progress in the USIA's Nine from Little Rock on JSTOR The film is narrated by Jefferson Thomas, one of the Little Rock Nine, who died in 2010.
Accolades The film won Guggenheim his first Oscar at the 37th Academy Awards, held in 1965, for Documentary Short Subject. He was also nominated in the same category the same year for Children Without.Documentary Winners: 1965 Oscars
Cast Jefferson Thomas as himself – Narrator (also archive footage) Ernest Green as himself (also archive footage) Thelma Mothershed as herself (also archive footage)
See also Civil rights movement in popular culture
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, posted by the National Archives and Records Administration