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Nine From Little Rock, 1964

Released in 1964, this Oscar-award winning short documentary film is about the nine students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, AR, in 1957. It was produced and directed for the United States Information Agency (USIA) by documentary filmmaker Charles Guggenheim. 

The film received an Academy Award, or Oscar, for Best Documentary Short 1965. That Oscar statue is on permanent display at the McGowan Theater at the National Archives in Washington, DC. The historic film was digitally restored by NARA’s Film Preservation lab in 2015 on the 50th anniversary of its Academy Award. 
 

    National Archives Identifier: 51380/Local Identifier: 306.5160

 

View and download Nine From Little Rock, which is part of Record Group 306, Records of the U.S. Information Agency, Series: Moving Images Relating to U.S. Domestic and International Activities, in the National Archives Catalog. Learn more about USIA and other films intended for international audiences held by the Moving Image and Sound Branch through the National Archives Catalog, through the Special Media Records Division blog, The Unwritten Record, on History Hub, or in person at our research room in College Park, MD.

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