Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4, and Student Protest in America (2017)
• May 5th, 2017 • 1h 26min
Documentary, History
Overview
This is the story of Kent State University students who stood up to question racism, violence against protesters, and the long American involvement in the Vietnam War. On May 4, 1970, the National Guard shot thirteen of them, killed four, and all were forever changed.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
Released on: 2006-10-27
Music, Documentary
Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how ...
Gewalt no Mori - Kare ha Waseda de shinda
Released on: 2024-05-25
Documentary
A documentary about the end of the student movement in 1972 and the lynching of Daizaburo Kawaguchi,...
Refuge(e)
Released on: 2019-03-14
Documentary
Refuge(e) traces the incredible journey of two refugees, Alpha and Zeferino. Each fled violent threa...
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
Released on: 2017-01-20
Documentary
When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua...
The Fog of War
Released on: 2003-10-26
Documentary, TV Movie, History, War
Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert ...
Freedom Isn't Free — The Freedom Charter Today
Released on: 2018-06-02
Documentary
Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key polit...
Road Not Taken
Released on: 2016-12-10
Documentary
After the failed Umbrella Revolution in 2014, lives go back to normal, but the scenes of the great p...
1987: When the Day Comes
Released on: 2017-12-27
Drama, History, Thriller
In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police in...
A Film Like Any Other
Released on: 1968-09-30
Documentary
An analysis of the social upheaval of May 1968, made in the immediate wake of the workers’ and stude...
Les Misérables
Released on: 1935-04-20
Drama, History, Romance
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War
Released on: 2009-05-01
Documentary, History
In the winter of 2002-'03, as the US was building its case to attack Iraq, people around the world r...
Breaking the Silence: The Maria Soledad Case
Released on: 2024-10-09
Documentary
In '90s Argentina, the murder of a high school student sparks widespread protests. Retold by her lov...
Sports
Released on: 1932-07-15
Documentary, Action
The film is about a protest provoked when the university decided to restrict access to sports facili...
When a City Rises
Released on: 2021-04-23
Documentary
Behind the gas masks of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, the often very young activists are just as d...
A Night of Knowing Nothing
Released on: 2022-04-13
Documentary, Romance
L, a student in India witness to the government's violent response to university protests, writes le...
Chicano Moratorium: A Question of Freedom
Released on: 1971-01-01
Documentary
On August 29, 1970 in East Los Angeles, a peaceful march of over 20,000 Chicanas/os, united in prote...
June Turmoil
Released on: 1969-01-01
Documentary
The film speaks of student demonstrations in Belgrade, 1969 and of the critical quality, enthusiasm ...
From London to Gaza
Released on: 2024-05-20
Documentary
London students and academics protest the genocide in Gaza.
Tragedy or Hope
Released on: 1972-01-01
History, Documentary
Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing a...