Nine from Little Rock

Nine from Little Rock
Directed by Charles Guggenheim
Produced by Shelby Storck
Written by Shelby Storck
Starring Little Rock Nine
Narrated by Jefferson Thomas
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company
Release dates
  • 1964 (1964)
Running time
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. The film was commissioned by George Stevens, Jr. of the United States Information Agency. The film won Guggenheim his first Academy Award 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. The film is narrated by Jefferson Thomas, one of the Little Rock Nine, who died in 2010.[1][2]

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