From well-loved classics to relatively-unknown masterpieces, films are perfect for learning about social diversity!

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Oscar-winning movies Moonlight and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, along with other movies mostly released since 2010, are used as case studies in multiculturalism and other aspects of social diversity.

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Passages of about 600 words engage students in topics such as LGBT, race, gender discrimination, immigration, poverty and disease.

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Table of Contents

  Unit 1    United by Desperation––White Trash

               “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
  Unit 2    Assigning a Label––LGBT

               “Moonlight”
  Unit 3    Prejudice and Egocentrism––Gender and Racial                         Segregation

               “Hidden Figures”

  Unit 4    Human vs. Property––Slavery Systems

               “12 Years A Slave”
  Unit 5    Choosing a Home––Immigrants

               “Brooklyn”
  Unit 6    Be an Intercultural Interpreter––Immigrants

               “Gran Torino”
  Unit 7    An Illegal Life––Illegal Immigrants

               “The Visitor”
  Unit 8    Foreign Language and Self-Confidence––Foreign                         Language

               “English Vinglish”

  Unit 9    Frame of Mind––Cross-Cultural Communication

               “Lost in Translation”
  Unit 10  An Individual or A Number––State Welfare

               “I, Daniel Blake”
  Unit 11  Pushing Past Boundaries––Physical Disability

               “The Theory of Everything”
  Unit 12  Does It Divide or Unite?––Disease

               “Dallas Buyers Club”
  Unit 13  Finding a Cure––PTSD

               “American Sniper”
  Unit 14  Is Your World Peaceful?––Refugees

               “Hotel Rwanda”
  Unit 15  Sense of Reason––The Holocaust/History

               “Schindler’s List”