Ahead of Black History Month in February, the Central Arkansas Library System is hosting a lineup of movie screenings devoted to the civil rights movement in America.
Over the course of a month, Movies of a Movement: The Civil Rights & Social Change Collection will come to the CALS Ron Robinson Theater on Thursday nights in downtown Little Rock. Each screening is just $5 a ticket and begins at 6:30 p.m.
Here’s what’s on the lineup.
Jan. 31: “Within Our Gates” (1920, NR)
“Within Our Gates” is a 1920 American silent film by the director Oscar Micheaux that portrays the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century, the years of Jim Crow and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan. Produced, written and directed by Micheaux, it is the oldest known surviving film made by an African-American director.
Feb. 7: “Malcolm X” (1992, PG-13)
“Malcolm X” is an American epic biographical drama directed and co-written by Spike Lee about the Afro-American activist Malcolm X. The film dramatizes key events in Malcolm X’s life including his criminal career, his incarceration, his journey with the Nation of Islam and his assassination on Feb. 21, 1965.
Feb. 21: “Selma” (2014, PG-13)
“Selma” is a historical drama directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Paul Webb, based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches led by James Bevel, Hosea Williams, Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit the Ron Robinson website.