Fire in the Heartland: THE KENT STATE STORY is the story of the struggle of a generation of students at Kent State University who stood up in the 1960s and 70s for Civil Rights and against racism, violence, and the war in Vietnam, and paid for it with their lives.

Citizen Blue is a documentary film about James Blue, the most important, but lesser known, film makers, scholars, teachers, and citizens of the Twentieth Century. It tells the story of his life and work but more importantly of US and World cinema during the post WWII era of profound cinema, social, cultural and political transformations of the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s. James Blue was at the center of all of them and is thus a touchstone and guide to encounter, witness, and understand them.

Dream to Fly: The Story of Howard Hughes the Aviator. A film by Daniel Miller documents how the famed aviator created the first airplane that was able to land on and take off from a body of water. The film utilizes archival materials interspersed with interviews. The Hughes flying boat, popularly known as the Spruce Goose, has been shrouded in mystery for decades before finally going on public display. This film details the information, including original footage of the only flight, from inside the cockpit and outside, construction details, and footage of Howard Hughes himself.

This is the story of 24 of those Japanese American students at the University of Oregon in 1942 who were forced from campus, subjected to extreme racism, and denied their rightfully earned diplomas there and the pioneering efforts of the University of Oregon to shine a light on this dark history and to award these 24 students with diplomas and with a reunion and event that brought they and their families from all over the United States to celebrate and to educate students everywhere what happened to them and could happen to others.

(2022) James Blue’s The March (1964) is a humanistic and poetic 33-minute film of the August 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, produced and distributed to 83 foreign countries by the United States Information Agency (USIA) where Blue went on to make many other films. Historians agree that the March on Washington was a high point of the long Civil Rights Movement. Director Daniel Miller’s new documentary celebrates Blue’s film of The March and captures the movement’s rhetorical signature, which includes explicit condemnations of racism and federal inaction joined to an anti-racist platform that included a commitment to nonviolence, a prophetic theology, the use of protest spirituals, interracial collaboration, a dedication to constitutional ideals, and carefully calibrated condemnations of American apartheid yoked to a vision of America’s promise. This new documentary coincides with the 60th anniversary and contains contemporary interviews and commentary.

This is the story of the creation and rise to power of the national athletics program the University of Oregon Ducks focusing on the catalyst events that launched the national presence of UO athletics, the building and development of first the football stadium and facilities of Autzen Stadium and the teams, coaches, administrators and others who practiced and played there. Beginning with the stories of the UO athetic legacies of the legendary Bill Bowerman and Nike CEO and founder Phil Knight and ending with the ascendence of Oregon to become a major college football power with major Pac-12 Championships, Rose Bowl appearances, and Heisman Trophy candidates and winners, this is a truly remarkable story.

This documentary features nationally known coaches, players and administrators including Coach Rich Brooks, Coach Mike Bellotti, Pro Football Hall of Fame members Dan Fouts and Ahmad Rashad, All Americans quarterback Joey Harrington, defensive lineman Haloti Ngata and linebacker and coach Don Pellum.

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