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...

Do The Right Thing BTS - Part 4 (1989) A Spike Lee Joint Movie HD

Movies | The Guardian

Documenting Women's Rites: An Interview with Filmmaker Kim Longinotto

Captain Fantastic (final)

How Spike Lee's 'Do The Right Thing' Still Resonates Today

Film: camera shots examples

Film Editing: techniques and examples

The Magic of Making Sound | That's Amazing

Do the Right Thing Sound Analysis

Suspense in Films

New...

Lead Science Technician

Summer 2026 Examinations

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

8xS1 Chemistry

IT, COMMUNICATIONS AND AUDIOVISUAL TECHNICIAN

Friends of Hartismere - Car Boot Sale

Parent & Carer Perception Survey

The Wave - FULL REVISION

Discover...

Film Studies Do The Right Thing ZEN The Guardian GCE GCSE YouTube Stories We Tell Careers In Film | Film Schools & Colleges Vacancies Whiplash Gender Sound Rear Window Chem Kim Longinotto Hartismere Working Videos The Wave Cinema Trips Test

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...