Oscar nominees - short documentary
Do you want to get interested in this year's Academy Awards but you don't have the time to watch a bunch of super long movies? You’re in luck because the five nominees in the short documentary category are all available to watch online. You can watch all five and get super invested in who wins this category!
Bonus: it takes only 2 hours and 18 minutes to watch all five of these short docs, which is less time than it takes to watch Anatomy of a Fall, Killers of the Flower Moon, Oppenheimer, Poor Things, or The Zone of Interest.
The ABCs of Book Banning (27:00)
This film features people discussing the mass banning of books relating to LGBTQ topics and issues of race, specifically in Florida. It was available on YouTube as recently as last week, but now it’s only available through Paramount
trailer
discussion with authors Jill Twiss, Peter Parnell, Nikki Giovanni, and Grace Linn
https://www.youtube.com/live/UH6uFbbG2dU
books mentioned in this documentary:
[Spoiler (click to open)]
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
Maus by Art Spiegelman
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
MLK: Journey of a King by Tonya Bolden
The Life of Rosa Parks by Kathleen Connors
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell
The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish by Lil Miss Hot Mess
Ambitious Girl by Meena Harris
The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy by Emmanuel Acho
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Antiracist Baby
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
Two Degrees by Alan Gratz
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon
Forever by Judy Blume
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter n=by Erika L. Sanchez
Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
Draw Me a Star by Eric Carle
The Barber of Little Rock (34:55)
The documentary film tells the story of Arlo Washington, an African American barber in Little Rock, Arkansas, who founded a nonprofit community bank to try to lessen the racial wealth gap.
Island in Between (19:02)
The documentary film tells the story of the islands of Kinmen, and filmmaker S. Leo Chiang reflecting on his relationship between Taiwan, China, and the United States, and the Cross-Strait relations.
The Last Repair Shop (39:58)
Since 1959, Los Angeles has been one of the few United States cities to offer and fix musical instruments for its public school students at no cost. Those instruments, numbering around 80,000, are maintained at a Los Angeles downtown warehouse by handful of craftspeople. The film profiles four of them, each specializing in an orchestra section, as well as students whose lives have been enriched by the repair shop's work. The film concludes with a performance by district alumni.
Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó (16:52)
This documentary short directed by Sean Wang is about his Chinese immigrant grandmothers. It is available on both Disney+ and Hulu.
Fun fact: did you know that what you call your grandparents in Chinese differs based on what part of China your family is from?
trailer
interview with Sean and his grandmothers
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Poll
Bonus: it takes only 2 hours and 18 minutes to watch all five of these short docs, which is less time than it takes to watch Anatomy of a Fall, Killers of the Flower Moon, Oppenheimer, Poor Things, or The Zone of Interest.
The ABCs of Book Banning (27:00)
This film features people discussing the mass banning of books relating to LGBTQ topics and issues of race, specifically in Florida. It was available on YouTube as recently as last week, but now it’s only available through Paramount
trailer
Click to viewdiscussion with authors Jill Twiss, Peter Parnell, Nikki Giovanni, and Grace Linn
https://www.youtube.com/live/UH6uFbbG2dU
books mentioned in this documentary:
[Spoiler (click to open)]
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
Maus by Art Spiegelman
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
MLK: Journey of a King by Tonya Bolden
The Life of Rosa Parks by Kathleen Connors
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell
The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish by Lil Miss Hot Mess
Ambitious Girl by Meena Harris
The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy by Emmanuel Acho
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Antiracist Baby
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
Two Degrees by Alan Gratz
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon
Forever by Judy Blume
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter n=by Erika L. Sanchez
Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
Draw Me a Star by Eric Carle
The Barber of Little Rock (34:55)
The documentary film tells the story of Arlo Washington, an African American barber in Little Rock, Arkansas, who founded a nonprofit community bank to try to lessen the racial wealth gap.
Island in Between (19:02)
The documentary film tells the story of the islands of Kinmen, and filmmaker S. Leo Chiang reflecting on his relationship between Taiwan, China, and the United States, and the Cross-Strait relations.
The Last Repair Shop (39:58)
Since 1959, Los Angeles has been one of the few United States cities to offer and fix musical instruments for its public school students at no cost. Those instruments, numbering around 80,000, are maintained at a Los Angeles downtown warehouse by handful of craftspeople. The film profiles four of them, each specializing in an orchestra section, as well as students whose lives have been enriched by the repair shop's work. The film concludes with a performance by district alumni.
Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó (16:52)
This documentary short directed by Sean Wang is about his Chinese immigrant grandmothers. It is available on both Disney+ and Hulu.
Fun fact: did you know that what you call your grandparents in Chinese differs based on what part of China your family is from?
trailer
interview with Sean and his grandmothers
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Poll