Nine from Little Rock
Nine from Little Rock is a 1964 American short documentary film directed by Charles Guggenheim about the Little Rock Nine, the first nine African-American students to attend an all-white Arkansas high school in 1957. Production The film was commissioned by George Stevens Jr. of the United States Information Agency. The film is narrated by Jefferson Thomas, one of the Little Rock Nine, who died in 2010. Accolades The film won Guggenheim his first Oscar at the 37th Academy Awards, held in 1965, for Documentary Short Subject. He was also nominated in the same category the same year for Children Without. Cast Jefferson Thomas as himself – Narrator (also archive footage) Ernest Green as himself (also archive footage) Thelma Mothershed as herself (also archive footage) See also Civil rights movement in popular culture References External links , posted by the National Archives and Records Administration 1964 films 1964 short films 1964 documentary films 1960s English-language films 1960s short documentary films American short documentary films American black-and-white films Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners Documentary films about the civil rights movement Documentary films about Arkansas Little Rock Nine Films directed by Charles Guggenheim United States Information Agency films 1960s American films