Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

25 Years Later, How Spike Lee's 'Do The Right Thing' Changed Race Relations In America


It's been 25 years today, June 30, since director Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing film hit theaters, and this drama not only holds a lot of significance for many across the country, it was also the film President Barack Obama took First Lady Michelle Obama to see on their first date.

See also...

Spike Lee on Do The Right Thing's legacy

Explore...

The Magic of Making Sound | That's Amazing

From Nosferatu to The General – why the 1920s is my favourite film decade

DP/30 @ Sundance '13: Stories We Tell, storyteller Sarah Polley

6000 extras at Gorleston beach - and we were a part of it!

Film Editing: techniques and examples

BFI Academy Labs

Do The Right Thing BTS - Part 3 (1989) A Spike Lee Joint Movie HD

How 50 Famous Female Characters Were Described in Their Screenplays

Editing a Film

Viggo Mortensen & Matt Ross On "Captain Fantastic" | BUILD Series

New...

Harry Potter (One Part) Palace Theatre, London Weds., 13 January 2027. Year 7&8

Examination resits

Parents Evening :: Year 12

8xS/Ch1 Cover

December 2026 Mock Examinations

Hartismere Family :: Policy Documents

Paddington The Musical Savoy Theatre, London Thursday, 15 April 2027. Years 7 & 8

Music Evenings 2026

Discover...

Film Studies Do The Right Thing ZEN The Guardian GCE GCSE YouTube Editing Mrs Davy Screenplay Vimeo College Crashcourse Rear Window Careers In Film | Film Schools & Colleges NEA American Cinema Trips Short Film Aspen Russell Calendar Music Whiplash

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...