Libraries Provide Resources for Sexual Assault Awareness Month

As the U of A participates in its annual recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the Multimedia Department in Mullins Library offers streaming videos that discuss and acknowledge sexual assault. Physical items are also available on display in Mullins Library, room 463, and all items on display are available for immediate checkout. Books and ebooks related to Sexual Assault Awareness Month can be found in the Title IX Resources research guide.  

Streaming Videos 

• The Hunting Ground covers sexual assault on U.S. college campuses, institutional cover-ups and the social toll on victims and their families. The film follows survivors as they pursue their education and legal justice despite harsh retaliation, harassment and pushback. 

• Brian Banks is the true story of an all-American high school football star who finds his life upended when he's wrongly convicted of a crime he didn't commit. Despite the lack of evidence, Banks is sentenced to a decade of prison and probation. Years later, with the support of Justin Brooks and the California Innocence Project, Banks fights to reclaim his life and fulfill his dreams of playing in the NFL. 

• Anita: Speaking Truth to Power reveals the story of an African American woman who sat before a Senate committee of 14 white men and recounted the repeated acts of sexual harassment she had endured while working with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Hill's graphic testimony was a turning point for gender equality in the U.S. and ignited a political firestorm about sexual harassment and power in the workplace that resonates still today. 

• The Central Park Five tells the story of the five Black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park in 1989. 

• On the Record presents the story of former A&R executive Drew Dixon, whose career and personal life were upended by the alleged abuse she faced from her high-profile male bosses. The documentary follows Dixon as she grapples with her decision to become one of the first women of color, in the wake of #MeToo, to come forward to publicly accuse hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons of sexual misconduct. The film chronicles Dixon's story, as well as those of fellow Simmons accusers Sil Lai Abrams and Sheri Sher, delving into the ways Black women's voices are silenced and ignored. 

• The Green Mile is about death row criminal John Coffey, who has been sentenced for the rape and murder of two girls. However, his kind manner doesn't seem to fit the mold of a cold-blooded killer. Prison guards soon discover that Coffey seems to have supernatural powers of healing and may have been falsely convicted. 

• When #MeToo Hits Home: This panel discussion tackles the questions: what mistakes do companies make in dealing with sexual harassment, pay inequity and other gender issues in the workplace, and how can they be best addressed to mitigate business risk? 

• #MeToo Episodes 1-5 

• Episode 1: The Reckoning 

• Episode 2: The Accuser and The Accused 

• Episode 3: Masculinity in Crisis 

• Episode 4: The Culture of Complicity 

• Episode 5: Is Patriarchy on its Way Out? 

Physical DVDs on Display 

• The Invisible War is an investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. It follows the stories of several idealistic young servicewomen who were raped and then betrayed by their own officers when they came forward to report. 

• Precious is the 1987 story of obese, illiterate, Black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones who lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. 

• Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife in Rashōmon.  

• In Boys Don't Cry, a transgendered youth starts living as a man and assumes the name Brandon Teena. He moves to a tiny Nebraska town and begins making new friends under his new identity. All goes well until his new friends discover his secret.  

• Thelma and Louise embark on a trip to escape the day-to-day grind, but a twist of fate finds them on the run from the law. 

• The Color Purple tells the heart-wrenching story of a young Black girl in the early 20th century who's forced into a brutal marriage and separated from her sister. 

• Deliver Us from Evil is a documentary film that explores the life of Irish Catholic priest Oliver O'Grady, who admitted to having molested and raped approximately 25 children in Northern California from the late 1970s through the early 1990s.