Although the year is only halfway through, 2020 seems to already have a decade’s worth of history in it. If you are looking for something to watch that also serves an educational purpose, Spinnaker Media has compiled a list of movies, shows, and documentaries found across streaming platforms.

Films: 

Netflix

• 13th – Available for free on YouTube here. 
• When They See Us 
• LA92 
• The Force 
• Coronavirus explained 
• Explained: Racial wealth Gap
• The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
• Becoming

Hulu

•  Monsters and Men 
• Detroit 
• If Beale Street Could Talk 
• Crime + Punishment 
• Kobe Bryant: The Death of a Legend 
• Underground
• Black Stories Presents: Your Attention Please

Amazon Prime

• Freedom Summer Mississippi 1964 
• February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four 
• Birth of a Movement
• Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP
• The Uncomfortable Truth
• Liberty and Slavery: The Paradox of America’s Founding Fathers
• FBI’s War On Black America 
• Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise 
• Spies of Mississippi
• Emancipation Road 
• Black History Activators
• The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
• Salute
• Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague
• Rise of the Superbugs

A lot has happened in the past few months, so hopefully something from this list will encourage you to dive deeper into a topic. Research sources can be found through UNF library databases if you want to do personal research. 

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