CREATED EQUAL FILM SERIES January 25, 2 pm: The American Experience: Abolitionists Part I (2012) PG TV Episode/Historical Documentary| 60 min. Abolitionist allies Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, and Angelina Grimké change a despised revolutionary movement against slavery into a force that changed our nation. FILM@JCSM: AMERICAN TRANSPORT January 29, 4 pm: Annie Get Your Gun (1950) NR Comedy/Musical | 107 min. Introduced by Chase Bringardner, Department of Theatre, Auburn University The musical story of the great sharpshooter, Annie Oakley, who rises to fame while dealing with her professional rival and love interest, Frank Butler, the star shooter in “Colonel Buffalo Bill’s” show. CREATED EQUAL FILM SERIES February 1, 2 pm: The American Experience: Abolitionists Part II and III (2012) PG TV Episode/Historical Documentary | 120 min. As the divide between the North and South grows, the controversy between pro-slavery and freedom supporters rises to an all-time high. CREATED EQUAL FILM SERIES February 8, 2 pm: Slavery by Another Name (2012) Unrated Historical Documentary | 90 min. Slavery by Another Name shows a remarkable story of the forgotten victims and perpetrators of slavery in the North and South through dramatic re-enactments and archival photos dating back to more than eight decades ago. FILM@JCSM: AMERICAN TRANSPORT February 12, 4 pm: Strangers on a Train (1951) PG Crime/Thriller | 101 min. Introduced by Tom Perrin, Department of Language and Literature, Huntingdon College Psychotic socialite Bruno Anthony confronts a professional tennis player, Guy Haines, with an idea on how two complete strangers can get away with murder to each rid themselves of someone they want dead. CREATED EQUAL FILM SERIES February 15, 2 pm: The Loving Story (2011) Unrated Drama/Historical Documentary | 77 min. The Loving Story tells the heart-rending love story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial married couple enduring the turbulent hardships during the Civil Rights era. CREATED EQUAL FILM SERIES February 22, 2 pm: The American Experience: Freedom Riders (2011) Unrated TV Episode/Historical Documentary | 60 min. Freedom Riders focuses on the famous group of civil-rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern parts of the United States in 1961. SOUTHERN CIRCUIT TOUR OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS February 26, 5 pm: The New Black with Yoruba Richen, director/producer Documentary | 80 min. The New Black tells the story of how the African American community is grappling with gay rights in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights. The film documents activists, families, and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize gay marriage and examines homophobia in the black community’s institutional pillar—the black church. CREATED EQUAL FILM SERIES March 1, 2 pm: The American Experience: Freedom Summer (2014) Unrated Historical Documentary | 113 min. Freedom Summer travels back to 1964, the summer where more than 700 Mississippi student activists registered African American voters, created freedom schools, and established the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. FILM@JCSM: AMERICAN TRANSPORT March 5, 4 pm: The Grapes of Wrath (1940) NR Drama | 129 min. Introduced by Eric Skipper, Dean, Honors/Graduate Studies, University of North Georgia An impoverished Midwest family is forced off their land in the era of the Great Depression. We watch the misfortunes they endure during the trek to prosperous California. THE LOST BIRD PROJECT March 8, 2 pm: The Lost Bird Project (2012) Unrated Documentary, Adventure | 63 min. The film chronicles sculptor Todd McGrain’s project to memorialize five extinct birds. McGrain searches for the locations where the birds were last seen in the wild and negotiates for permission to install his large bronze sculptures there. SOUTHERN CIRCUIT TOUR OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS March 12, 5 pm: Old South with Danielle Beverly, director/producer/camera/sound Documentary | 70 min. When the Kappa Alpha (KA), an elite, white fraternity at the University of Georgia, buys and demolishes houses on one block in a historic African-American neighborhood, the black community becomes agitated. Old South will open dialogue, revealing that there are often no easy solutions. THE LOST BIRD PROJECT March 15, 2 pm: The Lost Bird Project (2012) Unrated Documentary, Adventure | 63 min. The film chronicles sculptor Todd McGrain’s project to memorialize five extinct birds. McGrain searches for the locations where the birds were last seen in the wild and negotiates for permission to install his large bronze sculptures there. FILM@JCSM: AMERICAN TRANSPORT April 2, 4 pm: Smokey and the Bandit (1977) PG Action/Comedy/Romance | 96 min. Introduced by Erich Nunn, English Department, Auburn University Two southern truck drivers, Bandit and Cledus, accept a dare from bigshots Big and Little Enos to drive a truckload full of beer over county lines from Texas, while leading a high-speed chase across the Southeast. AUBURN CONNECTS: THE COMMON BOOK PROGRAM FILM SERIES April 12, 2 pm: William and the Windmill (Malawi) Documentary/Biography/Drama | 88 min. William Kamkwamba, a young Malawian, builds a power-generating windmill from junk parts to rescue his family from famine, transforming his life and catapulting him on to the world stage. His fame and success lead him to new opportunities and complex choices about his future, distancing him from the life he once knew. FILM@JCSM: AMERICAN TRANSPORT April 9, 4 pm: Bullitt (1968) PG Action | 114 min. Introduced by David Lucsko, History Department, Auburn University Detective Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen) protects witnesses and tracks criminals through the streets of San Francisco. AUBURN CONNECTS: THE COMMON BOOK PROGRAM FILM SERIES April 19, 2 pm: The Last Fishing Boat (Malawi) Documentary | 110 min. A once successful fisherman on Lake Malawi is now struggling due to the depletion of fish in the lake, while his cultural values are being threatened. SOUTHERN CIRCUIT TOUR OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS April 23, 5 pm: A Kind of Order with Noel Schwerin, producer/director Documentary | 78 min. A Kind of Order follows a warden, a white separatist, and a black gangbanger for seven years as they struggle to move beyond the stark reality of America’s prison racial order. Challenged for the first time by a U.S. Supreme Court desegregation ruling and a novel multi-race program, their stories reveal the institutional nature of racial hierarchies and the hope and hidden risks of transformative change. AUBURN CONNECTS: THE COMMON BOOK PROGRAM FILM SERIES April 26, 2 pm: Finding Hillywood Documentary | 53 min. Set among the hills of Rwanda, Finding Hillywood chronicles one man’s road to forgiveness, his effort to heal his country, and the realization that we all must one day face our past. This is a unique and endearing phenomenon film about the very beginning of Rwanda’s film industry and the pioneers who bring local films to rural communities and a real-life example of the power of film to heal a man and a nation. FILM@JCSM: AMERICAN TRANSPORT April 30, 4 pm: Fruitvale Station (2013) R Biography/Drama/Romance | 85 min. Introduced by Rachel Raimist, Telecommunication and Film Department, University of Alabama This is the true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident whose encounter with police officers at the Fruitvale BART station would shake the Bay Area to its very core.