Journeys in Film Videos

Navalny Documentary Teaser.mp4
Oscar-winning NAVALNY offers an inspiring model of what it looks like to stand up for what's right. Teach about Alexei Navalny's life & legacy with our free teaching guides for this riveting documentary. https://journeysinfilm.org/product/navalny/ #Education #Navalny

CRIP CAMP A DISABILITY REVOLUTION Official Trailer Netflix Documentary.mp4
Happy Disability Pride Month! If you haven't watched the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution yet about one of the most important human rights movements of the 20th century, now is the time. We offer a curriculum guide with classroom-ready lesson plans and a discussion guide for this film Our curriculum guide includes a powerful lesson on language, power and ableism. Like all of our materials, these resources are free. Learn more: https://journeysinfilm.org/product/crip-camp-guides/ #DisabilityPrideMonth #Education

Helen Keller quote (1).mp4
Pioneering disability rights advocate Helen Keller was born on this day in 1880. An inspiration to many, her legacy is extensive. We're pleased to offer powerful tools for teaching with CRIP CAMP about Disability Rights and the contemporary Disability Rights activists who picked up her torch. Get your free CRIP CAMP curriculum guide now. https://journeysinfilm.org/product/crip-camp-guides/ #Education #DisabilityRights

Finding Pride (Trailer).mp4
🌈 Celebrate Pride Month with film! We were honored to create a teaching guide for It Gets Better Project's FINDING PRIDE. The short video series streams for free and our teaching guide is free, too. We warmly recommend them for your classroom and community. 🏳‍🌈 https://journeysinfilm.org/product/finding-pride/ #PrideMonth #Education

Wadjda Official Theatrical Trailer - A great film for National Ride A Bike Day
🚲 Celebrate National Ride A Bike Day with film! Wadjda tells the delightful story of a convention-defying Saudi girl whose heart is set on the impossible goal of getting a bicycle, from Saudi Arabia’s first woman director Haifaa Al Mansour. Our free curriculum guide features six lessons that put Wadjda’s life as a young girl in modern Saudi Arabia into context, exploring Saudi geography and culture, as well as gender equity, and introduces the groundbreaking work of filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour. For grades 6-12. Get your free Wadjda curriculum guide now! 📚🎬 https://journeysinfilm.org/product/wadjda/ #NationalRieABikeDay #EdChat

Schindler's List - Oskar Schindler.mp4
Oskar Schindler, who saved 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, was born on this day in 1908. Teach his powerful legacy with Schindler's List and our free Curriculum Guide. https://journeysinfilm.org/product/schindlers-list/ #EdChat #HolocaustEducation

SILKROAD Lesson 4 — The Music of Strangers.mp4
Discover the beauty of Syrian culture through film for Syrian Independence Day. We warmly recommend The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road, which includes a captivating journey into Syrian traditional music. Lesson 4 in our free curriculum guide explores The Ongoing Syrian Conflict and Humanitarian Crisis. This lesson invites students to view an interpretive music and visual arts collaboration and then create their own unique projects. Learn more: https://journeysinfilm.org/product/the-music-of-strangers/ #EdChat

Rebel Hearts Official Trailer
Discover the radical nuns who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Selma in 1965 — and who continue to take a stand today. Put contemporary protests in historical perspective: teach about courage, allyship and activism with REBEL HEARTS. Learn more: https://journeysinfilm.org/product/rebel-hearts/ #EdChat

The Cup by Khyentse Norbu - Official Trailer.mp4
Today is International Day of Sport for Development and Peace. Teach about the power of sport across the curriculum with our free lesson plans for THE CUP! For grades 4-12. https://journeysinfilm.org/product/the-cup/ #EdChat

Hidden Figures - math passion (fb) (1).mp4
✔ Teach math with film for Mathematics & Statistics Month in April! We have film guides with math lesson suitable for grade 4 all the way to grade 12. Check them out! Get your free math lesson plans from our library and liven up your math classes today! 📚🎬 https://journeysinfilm.org/articles/teach-math-with-film-for-math-and-stats-month/ Math teachers, are you already using film to teach math in your classroom? We'd love to hear about your favorite films to teach math with and how that works for you. Please share! 💚 #EdChat #Math

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Journeys in Film is proud to announce our partnership with Independent Lens | PBS Indie Lens Pop-Up to create a Discussion Guide for Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s. Navigating Parkinson’s disease requires resourcefulness and determination. A political cartoonist, a boxing coach, and an optician show us how to do just that. Watch Independent Lens’ #MatterofMindPBS on the PBS App starting at 10/9c on April 8. Learn more about how we created a custom Discussion Guide for Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's public screenings, how you can becoming an Indie Lens Pop-Up screening partner for this poignant documentary film, and how filmmakers can work with us to give your film educational outreach. https://journeysinfilm.org/news/journeys-in-film-partners-with-indie-lens-pop-up/ #Filmmakers

The Invisible Shield Documentary Trailer.mp4
Film of the week! Announcing the launch of our newest guide for THE INVISIBLE SHIELD, a new four-part documentary series that highlights public health's major successes and the heroes who make them possible every day — premiering TODAY on PBS. THE INVISIBLE SHIELD reveals how the field of public health has saved countless lives, protecting people from the constant threat of disease, and increasing lifespans. The series explores the hidden public health infrastructure that makes modern life possible. It highlights the thousands of unsung heroes — physicians, nurses, scientists, activists, reformers, engineers, and government officials — who work together to improve health outcomes, from the days of cholera and smallpox through the most recent battle with COVID-19. THE INVISIBLE SHIELD discussion guide is designed for educators, homeschoolers and students in grades 11-12; college educators and students; and prospective public health career candidates, career counselors and guidance counselors. as well as the general public. This docuseries and discussion guide are powerful tools to get students excited about careers in the field of public health. Like all of our resources, it is available free for everyone. THE INVISIBLE SHIELD premieres Tuesday, March 26, 024, 10 p.m. ET (check local listings) on PBS, with all four episodes available for streaming on PBS.org and the PBS app. From RadicalMedia, made possible by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Watch THE INVISIBLE SHIELD and get your free discussion guide now. https://journeysinfilm.org/product/the-invisible-shield/ #TheInvisibleShield #EdChat

Greener Pastures Coming Soon to Journeys in Film.mp4
🎉 We're excited to share a sneak peek at our first new film guide of 2024! Coming Soon to Journeys in Film: a brand new educational discussion guide for GREENER PASTURES. This award-winning documentary captures the day-to-day lives of four small Midwestern multi-generational family farms over the course of four years. Through an intimate, observational lens it examines the farm stressors, policies & politics farmers must maneuver to survive, connecting the dots between mental health, industrialization, food production and climate change. It is a story of perseverance, patience and determination that tackles nothing less than the future of farming in the heartland of America. Our Greener Pastures educational discussion guide is designed for high school and some middle school use, as well as higher education and public screenings. Catch the Greener Pastures broadcast premiere on PBS Independent Lens on March 25! Learn more: https://mailchi.mp/journeysinfilm/greener-pastures-coming-soon #Educational #MentalHealthAwarness #FarmLife

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Join us on March 19 for a FREE, for-credit AFT - American Federation of Teachers Share My Lesson Virtual Conference webinar where we will highlight key aspects of anti-bias education and share film-related resources specific to countering antisemitism and Islamophobia. Learn more & register now! https://sharemylesson.com/webinars/anti-bias-education-using-media #EdChat

Teach With Film for Ramadan.mp4
Happy Ramadan! Looking for educational resources to teach with during Ramadan? Check out our films centering Muslim stories plus our Story of God unit all about Islam for Ramadan March 10 to April 8! Children of Heaven https://bit.ly/TeachCoH He Named Me Malala https://bit.ly/TeachMalala Wadjda https://bit.ly/TeachWadjda The Story of God https://bit.ly/TeachTSoG Download your free teaching guides now. Ramadan Mubarak! #Ramadan #EdChat

It's Oscar Week! We're highlighting our free teaching guides for Oscar-nominated & Oscar-winning films to engage students across the curriculum. Bridge of Spies Children of Heaven Crip Camp Hidden Figures Navalny Schindler's List Summer of Soul The Post Whale Rider Get your free teaching guides for these acclaimed films now. https://journeysinfilm.org/library/ #EdChat

SUMMER OF SOUL Official Teaser.mp4
🎸 Our Summer of Soul Curriculum Guide features a Civil Rights Lesson. This lesson focuses on the year 1969 within the broader context of the Civil Rights Movement, the Civil Rights Act, and the Voting Rights Act. This lesson is a powerful tool to engage students about Black History. We're here to support you in uplifting Black stories during Black History Month and more importantly all year long. Get our full Summer of Soul Curriculum Guide — or get this lesson as as part of our Black History Lesson collection. All available free from our library. Link in bio. 📚 Summer of Soul https://bit.ly/TeachSoS Black History Month Collection https://bit.ly/JIFBlackHistory PS Summer of Soul features performances by iconic Black musicians of the 1960s including Nina Simone, Gladys Knight and the Pips, and Mahalia Jackson. It can also be great teaching choice for Women's History Month and Music in our Schools Month in March!

Hidden Figures Official Trailer [HD] 20th Century FOX.mp4
🚀 Our Hidden Figures Curriculum Guide features Segregation and Civil Rights Lesson. Our Hidden Figures Discussion Guide also explores the the Jim Crow South, and the Civil Rights Movement in the 50s and 60s These teaching resources are powerful classroom tools for teaching about global Black History. We're here to support you in uplifting Black stories during Black History Month and more importantly all year long. Get our full Hidden Figures Curriculum Guide and Discussion Guide https://bit.ly/TeachHiddenFigures — — or get these lessons as as part of our Black History Lesson collection. https://bit.ly/JIFBlackHistory PS This is also a great film to teach with for Women's History Month in March!

JUST MERCY Official Trailer.mp4
We're here to support you in uplifting Black stories during Black History Month and more importantly all year long. Like Just Mercy, based on the true story of world-renowned civil rights defense Bryan Stevenson's work to free wrongly condemned death row prisoner Walter McMillian. Our Just Mercy Curriculum Guide features a Reconstruction and Post-Reconstruction Lesson, and a lesson about Legal History related to the Civil Rights. These lessons are powerful classroom tools for teaching about Black History. #EdChat Get our Just Mercy Curriculum Guide on its own https://bit.ly/TeachJustMercy — — or as part of our Black History Lesson collection. https://bit.ly/JIFBlackHistory #EdChat

The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind Featurette A Behind the Scenes Extended Look [HD] Netflix.mp4
We're here to support you in uplifting Black stories during Black History Month and more importantly all year long. We warmly recommend The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind. Director Chiwetel Ejiofor, Aissa Maiga, Maxwell Simba, and William Kamkwamba discuss the inspiration behind the incredible true story of a thirteen year old boy in Malawi who finds an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine. Get our Curriculum Guide for The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind on its own — https://bit.ly/TeachTBWHTW — or as part of our Black History Lesson collection. https://bit.ly/JIFBlackHistory #EdChat