Showing 1 - 6 of 6 titles with a criteria of Subject is World War I and the Jazz Age

The Forgotten Occupation: Jim Crow Goes to Haiti

Brunel Martin came of age during Haiti's brutal occupation at the hands of United States Marines. Yet, he went on to become a fierce advocate of the country that destroyed his.

GOOD DOCS | 2023 | 103 minutes

The Great Flood

Filmmaker Bill Morrison and musician Bill Frisell evoke the Mississippi River Flood of 1927, and its many legacies.

Icarus Films | 2013 | 80 minutes

Greenwood: A Dreamland Destroyed

A destroyed dreamland erased from history

GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 44 minutes

Labor Wars of the Northwest

Chronicles the cauldron of worker discontent, radicalism and violence that permeated the the Pacific Northwest in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Collective Eye Films | 2019 | 75 minutes

Return to Vimy

A young Canadian woman visits the Vimy Memorial to make a charcoal imprint of the engraved name of her great-grandfather who was lost in battle, bringing with her a notebook of sketches and diary entries that he made during months of preparation for the battle to take back Vimy Ridge.

National Film Board of Canada | 2017 | 9 minutes

The Savoy King

The story of Chick Webb, who virtually invented modern drumming and built the hottest Swing orchestra of the 1930s - the "house band" of The Savoy Ballroom

Collective Eye Films | 2022 | 60 minutes