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Sir George Williams University -- Riot, 1969.
Racism in higher education -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History.
College students, Black -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Social conditions.
College students, Black -- Civil rights -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History.
Discrimination in higher education -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal.
Race riots -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History -- 20th century.
Racism -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History -- 20th century.
Student protesters -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal.
Student movements -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal.
West Indians -- Canada -- Social conditions.
Caribbean Canadians -- Social conditions.
Montréal (Québec) -- Race relations.
Canada -- Race relations.
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Sir George Williams University -- Riot, 1969.
Racism in higher education -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History.
College students, Black -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Social conditions.
College students, Black -- Civil rights -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History.
Discrimination in higher education -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal.
Race riots -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History -- 20th century.
Racism -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- History -- 20th century.
Student protesters -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal.
Student movements -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal.
West Indians -- Canada -- Social conditions.
Caribbean Canadians -- Social conditions.
Montréal (Québec) -- Race relations.
Canada -- Race relations.
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Ninth floor [videorecording (DVD)].
National Film Board of Canada, 2015.
Call #:
DVD 378.19829 N716 Doc
Subjects
Sir George Williams University
--
Riot, 1969.
Racism in higher education
--
Québec (Province)
--
Montréal
--
History.
College students, Black
--
Québec (Province)
--
Montréal
--
Social
conditions
.
College students, Black
--
Civil rights
--
Québec (Province)
--
Montréal
--
History.
Discrimination in higher education
--
Québec (Province)
--
Montréal.
Race riots
--
Québec (Province)
--
Montréal
--
History
--
20th century.
Racism
--
Québec (Province)
--
Montréal
--
History
--
20th century.
Student protesters
--
Québec (Province)
--
Montréal.
Student movements
--
Québec (Province)
--
Montréal.
West Indians
--
Canada
--
Social
conditions
.
Caribbean
Canadians
--
Social
conditions
.
Montréal (Québec)
--
Race relations.
Canada
--
Race relations.
Alternate title:
9th floor [videorecording (DVD)].
Neuvième étage [videorecording (DVD)]
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)].
Description:
1 videodisc (81 min.) : 2.0 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Originally produced as a documentary motion picture in 2015.
"tiff. 40/Toronto International Film Festival Official Selection 2015/Atlantic Film Festival 35 Years Official Selection/VIFF Film Festival Official Selection 2016/Calgary International Film Festival Official Selection 2015/FNC Festival du Nouveau Cinema Montréal 2015"--Container.
Bilingual packaging (English/French).
Home use only.
In English with optional French subtitles.
Closed-captioned.
Production:
National Film Board of Canada ; written and directed by Mina Shum ; producer, Selwyn Jacob.
Summary:
"It started quietly when a group of
Caribbean
students, strangers in a cold new land, began to suspect their professor of racism. It ended in the most explosive student uprising Canada had ever known. Over four decades later, Ninth Floor reopens the file on the infamous Sir George Williams Riot
--
a watershed moment in Canadian race relations and one of the most contested episodes in the nation's history. Making a compassionate and audacious foray into non-fiction, writer and director Mina Shum locates the protagonists in clandestine locations throughout Trinidad and Montreal, the wintry city where it all went down. In a cinematic gesture of reckoning and redemption, she listens as they set the record straight
--
and lay their burden down. Can we make peace with the past? What lessons have we learned? What really happened up there on the 9th floor?"--NFB website.
Genre:
Documentary films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Shum, Mina.
National Film Board of Canada.
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Alderney Gate Public Library
Adult Nonfeature DVDs
DVD 378.19829 N716 Doc
Adult Dvds-7 Days
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