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Official • 45 clips

This playlist provides clips that introduce students to many modern-day issues facing our society.

The Great Debaters: The Time for Justice

00:00 - 02:58

2m 58s

american history

socio-economic rights

right to education

racial segregation

unequal access to education

The plot of The Great Debaters revolves around the efforts of debate coach Melvin B. Tolson at a historically black Wiley College to place his team on equal footing with whites in the American South during the 1930s. The movie explores the social fabric of Texas during the Great Depression, for which as long as schools are segregated for whites and blacks, the quality of education will be vastly unequal.

Clips

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Girl Meets World: Social Media Lesson thumbnail

Girl Meets World: Social Media Lesson

Cory has a discussion with his class about social media and how it impacts their lives. The discu...

2

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Mean Girls: Social Groups

Janis stresses to Cady the importance of sitting with the right people in the cafeteria. She give...

3

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Carlton is a Sell-Out thumbnail

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Carlton is a Sell-Out

Will and Carlton both rush for a fraternity, but only Will gains acceptance. When questioned as t...

4

Sicko: Socialized Medicine thumbnail

Sicko: Socialized Medicine

Former First Lady Hillary Clinton championed a socialist approach to affordable health care so th...

5

Hotel Transylvania 2: Drac Learns New Technology thumbnail

Hotel Transylvania 2: Drac Learns New Technology

Jonathan helps Drac modernize the hotel by suggesting that the team use social media to promote t...

6

Modern Family: Lily Goes to a Vietnamese Restaurant thumbnail

Modern Family: Lily Goes to a Vietnamese Restaurant

Gloria, Mitch, and Cameron go out to a Vietnamese restaurant in an attempt to help Lily embrace h...

7

Rocko's Modern Life: Recycle Song thumbnail

Rocko's Modern Life: Recycle Song

Captain Compost Heap (CCH) sings a song about the importance of recycling, conserving the environ...

9

Don't Be a Menace to South Central: Supermarket Scene thumbnail

Don't Be a Menace to South Central: Supermarket Scene

Two customers of different races get treated drastically different in a supermarket. The storeown...

10

Everybody Hates Chris: Shopping While Black thumbnail

Everybody Hates Chris: Shopping While Black

Chris shares one of his frustrations: overt racism while shopping. He experiences it from the sec...

13

Made in Dagenham: Rights Not Privileges thumbnail

Made in Dagenham: Rights Not Privileges

Rita O'Grady works for the Ford Motor Co. plant in Dagenham, England. Despite performing the spec...

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The Great Debaters: The Time for Justice

The plot of The Great Debaters revolves around the efforts of debate coach Melvin B. Tolson at a ...

16

All in the Family: Equal Pay Debate thumbnail

All in the Family: Equal Pay Debate

Archie and Irene debate equal pay for women. Irene feels she should be paid as much as the man wh...

17

Inherit the Wind: Colonel Drummond Speech thumbnail

Inherit the Wind: Colonel Drummond Speech

Colonel Drummond argues for a teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution. He suggests tha...

19

The Emperor's Club: How Will History Remember You? thumbnail

The Emperor's Club: How Will History Remember You?

Professor Hundert inspires his students to make meaningful contributions to society. He asks one ...

20

The Verdict: What is the Truth? thumbnail

The Verdict: What is the Truth?

Frank reflects on a medical malpractice case in which he was offered a settlement. Upon reflectio...

24

It's a Wonderful Life: Making Our Customers Better thumbnail

It's a Wonderful Life: Making Our Customers Better

George Bailey points out to Mr. Potter his shrewd business practices. He emphasizes caring for th...

26

Adam Ruins Everything: The History of the Suburbs thumbnail

Adam Ruins Everything: The History of the Suburbs

Adam Conover and Nikole Hannah-Jones of the NY Times give a lesson to a suburban family about the...

27

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Endless Summer thumbnail

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Endless Summer

Mr. Krabs releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to create a year-long summer. His ultimate ...

28

An Inconvenient Truth: Science of Global Warming thumbnail

An Inconvenient Truth: Science of Global Warming

Al Gore explains just how thin the Earth's atmosphere is compared to the Earth itself and then de...

29

National Geographic: Bill Explains Climate Change thumbnail

National Geographic: Bill Explains Climate Change

Bill Nye explains climate change and the impact it can have on the environment and our lives. He ...

30

The Lords of Discipline: Mess Hall Scene thumbnail

The Lords of Discipline: Mess Hall Scene

During a meal at the military institute, new recruits offer the seasoned cadets their food. The s...

31

Contagion: Modeling of a Virus thumbnail

Contagion: Modeling of a Virus

The team creates a model of the virus causing an epidemic to better understand how it behaves and...

33

Beakman's World: Vaccines and The Immune System thumbnail

Beakman's World: Vaccines and The Immune System

Beakman explains what a vaccine is by acting like Edward Jenner. He explains how Jenner created t...

34

National Geographic: The Ebola Virus thumbnail

National Geographic: The Ebola Virus

Ebola is a rare, but extremely dangerous disease. Find out how many strains of Ebola exist, how t...

35

Philadelphia: The Essence of Discrimination thumbnail

Philadelphia: The Essence of Discrimination

A man with AIDs shows his lawyer the written words of the Federal Vocational Rehabilitation Act o...

36

A Different World: AIDS Speech thumbnail

A Different World: AIDS Speech

In this emotional clip, Josie Webb gives a speech about her life, youth, and perceived immortalit...

37

National Geographic: HIV and AIDS thumbnail

National Geographic: HIV and AIDS

About 37 million people around the world are currently living with AIDS. Learn how the human immu...

38

The Simpsons: Invasive Species thumbnail

The Simpsons: Invasive Species

The Simpsons take a bullfrog to Australia, and it devastates the environment because it's not nat...

39

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Grey's Anatomy: Passive Euthanasia

A patient's husband wants the doctors to ignore the DNR she signed years prior. The doctors honor...

40

Captain Fantastic: What is the Bill of Rights? thumbnail

Captain Fantastic: What is the Bill of Rights?

Ben proves to Harper that his children learn effectively through his own education system when sh...

41

The Boys from Brazil: Cloning a Rabbit thumbnail

The Boys from Brazil: Cloning a Rabbit

Dr. Bruckner demonstrates cloning by injecting the blood cells of a black rabbit into a white rab...

42

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones: Democracy vs. Dictatorship thumbnail

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones: Democracy vs. Dictatorship

Anakin and Padme are having a picnic when they start discussing systems of government. Anakin thi...

43

Gung Ho: Japanese Board Meeting thumbnail

Gung Ho: Japanese Board Meeting

When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liason must mediate the clash be...

44

Miss Sloane: Gun Control Debate thumbnail

Miss Sloane: Gun Control Debate

Miss Sloane appears on Jon O'Neill's show, This Week in Washington, where she participates in a d...

45

Origins: The Journey of Humankind: The Future of Cyberwarfare thumbnail

Origins: The Journey of Humankind: The Future of Cyberwarfare

War in the 21st century will be waged on many fronts -- one of which will be a digital battlefiel...