{{short description|1964 film}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Nine from Little Rock | image = Poster_for_1964_movie_Nine_From_Little_Rock.jpg | caption = | director = Charles Guggenheim | writer = Shelby Storck | producer = Shelby Storck | starring = Little Rock Nine | narrator = Jefferson Thomas | cinematography = | editing = | studio = United States Information Agency | released = {{film date|1964}} | runtime = 20 minutes | country = United States | language = English }} '''''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.<ref>[https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/nine-from-little-rock-8677/ Encyclopedia of Arkansas]</ref><ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/filmhistory.30.4.02 “It's Only Convincing If They Say It Is”: Documenting Civil Rights Progress in the USIA's Nine from Little Rock on JSTOR]</ref> The film is narrated by Jefferson Thomas, one of the Little Rock Nine, who died in 2010.<ref name="ampas guggenheim">{{cite web|title=The Charles Guggenheim Collection|url=http://www.oscars.org/filmarchive/collections/guggenheim.html|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|access-date=April 10, 2012|archive-date=April 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120416171335/http://www.oscars.org/filmarchive/collections/guggenheim.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==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''.<ref name="Oscars1965">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1965 |title=The 37th Academy Awards (1965) Nominees and Winners |access-date=June 25, 2016|work=oscars.org}}</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qNhMFPioDI Documentary Winners: 1965 Oscars]</ref>
==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== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0058410|title=Nine from Little Rock}} *{{YouTube|fPVOO5sugMY|Nine from Little Rock}}, posted by the National Archives and Records Administration
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