title: Nine from Little Rock
text: # Nine from Little Rock
  
  Nine from Little Rock is a 1964 American short documentary film directed by Charles Guggenheim about the Little Rock Nine, the first nine African-American students to attend an all-white Arkansas high school in 1957.
  
  ## Production
  
  The film was commissioned by George Stevens Jr. of the United States Information Agency. The film is narrated by Jefferson Thomas, one of the Little Rock Nine, who died in 2010.
  
  ## Accolades
  
  The film won Guggenheim his first Oscar at the 37th Academy Awards, held in 1965, for Documentary Short Subject. He was also nominated in the same category the same year for Children Without.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Jefferson Thomas as himself – Narrator (also archive footage)
  * Ernest Green as himself (also archive footage)
  * Thelma Mothershed as herself (also archive footage)
  