Nothing Like Chocolate (2013)

Director: Kum-Kum Bhavnani
Run Time: 68 min.
Call Number:  HD9200.G76 N68 2013

"Smartly directed by UCSB Sociology professor Kum-Kum Bhavnani, the film fleshes out the opening line supplied by one Susan Sarandon: 'Who doesn’t love chocolate? But there’s more to this decadent product than we know.' Actually, news has been spreading, if not fast or wide enough, about the inhumane child slave labor deployed in key West African cocoa-growing regions, especially the Ivory Coast. . . . But [Bhavnani] has wisely chosen to personalize her tale and give it a face by focusing on one particular 'ethical chocolate' company, the Grenada Chocolate Factory, run by the charismatic NYC émigré Mott Green, a self-described 'political activist version of Willie Wonka.'”
—Joseph Woodard, Santa Barbara Independent

Spies of Mississippi (2014)

Director: Dawn Porter
Run Time: 60 min. 
Call Number: E185.93.M6 S65 2014

"Founded in the 1950s as Supreme Court rulings began to chip away at Jim Crow, the Sovereignty Commission was an instrument of domestic intelligence-gathering whose stated mission was to preserve segregation. From a few operatives working under the governor, it grew into 'the Stasi of Mississippi,' generating upward of 160,000 pages of reports. It gave information to the police, many of whose officers belonged to the Ku Klux Klan. If the commission might have considered its activities technically, if whimsically, 'legal,' the Klan did not bother with such fine points; its tactics included bombings, kidnappings and murder, among other more run-of-the-mill forms of terrorism."
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times