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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 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. The film is narrated by Jefferson Thomas, one of the Little Rock Nine, who died in 2010.[1][2]

Nine from Little Rock
Directed by	Charles Guggenheim
Written by	Shelby Storck
Produced by	Shelby Storck
Starring	Little Rock Nine
Narrated by	Jefferson Thomas
Production company	United States Information Agency
Release date	1964 (1964)
Running time	20 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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

External links

• Nine from Little Rock at IMDb
• Nine from Little Rock on YouTube, posted by the National Archives and Records Administration

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