In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and, when the police chief was acquitted by an all-white jury, the blatant injustice would change the course of American history. Based on Richard Gergel’s book Unexampled Courage, the film details how the crime led to the racial awakening of President Harry Truman, who desegregated federal offices and the military two years later. The event also ultimately set the stage for the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which finally outlawed segregation in public schools and jumpstarted the modern civil rights movement.

The Spanish Earth

1937

English

6.5

♡ 2

80%

42%

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Documentary

spanish civil war (1936-39)

War

Joris Ivens Director

Orson Welles as Narrator

Gustav Regler as Self

Commander Martinez de Aragón as Self

José Díaz as Self

Joris Ivens’s advocacy documentary for the Republican cause intercuts a besieged Madrid with a nearby village digging an irrigation canal, linking the war to bread, land, and survival. Produced by the writers’ collective Contemporary Historians, edited by Helen van Dongen, scored by Marc Blitzstein, and narrated in its U.S. version by Ernest Hemingway (after an initial Orson Welles track), it blends frontline reportage with persuasion against Franco’s forces and their German–Italian backers.

The Eyes of Orson Welles

2018

English

6.7

♡ 2

93%

Mark Cousins Director

Jack Klaff as Orson Welles

Mark Cousins as Self

Orson Welles as Self

Beatrice Welles as Self

A poetic journey into the visual world of the legendary filmmaker and actor Orson Welles (1915-85) that reveals a new portrait of a unique genius, both of his life and of his monumental work: through his own eyes, drawn by his own hand, painted with his own brush.

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It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles

American Experience The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

The Spanish Earth

The Eyes of Orson Welles