Presented by Mid's Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Action (IDEA) Committee. All documentary screenings are free and everyone is welcome to attend.
2025 SCHEDULE
All screenings begin at 11am on the Mt. Pleasant Campus in the Community Room.
Popcorn provided by Laker Life | Water provided by the IDEA Committee
Tuesday, January 21
Poverty Awareness Month
Common Ground | By fusing journalistic expose’ with deeply personal stories from those on the front lines of the sustainable food movement, Common Ground unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system. As the highly anticipated sequel to Kiss the Ground, the film profiles a hopeful and uplifting movement of white, black, and Indigenous farmers who are using alternative “regenerative” models of agriculture that could balance the climate, save our health, and stabilize America’s economy – before it’s too late.
Tuesday, February 11
Black History Month
Descendant | Descendants of the enslaved Africans on an illegal ship that arrived in Alabama in 1860 seek justice and healing when the craft’s remains are discovered.
Tuesday, March 18
Women's History Month
Feminists: What Were They Thinking? | In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening — women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. Feminists: What Were They Thinking? revisits those photos, those women, and those times — and takes aim at our current culture revealing all too vividly the urgent need for continued change. The film offers candid and riveting interviews with women such as Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Judy Chicago, and Laurie Anderson tackling topics ranging from identity, abortion, race, childhood, and motherhood. A Netflix original documentary directed by Johanna Demetrakas.
Tuesday, April 8
Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Audrie & Daisy | In this heartbreaking documentary, two teens are cruelly cyberbullied after learning that sexual assault crimes against them were caught on camera.