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...

Vertigo Film Score Analysis

How to analyse sound in films

Film: camera shots examples

Screenplay examples with visuals from the film

Spike Lee Interview: "Do The Right Thing" 25 Years Later

SPIDER Short Film

Same Scene 5 Ways

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

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

Props, Things and Do the Right Thing

New...

Trip to Athens October 2026

Duke of Edinburgh Portal

WAR HORSE, Norwich Theatre Royal, Thursday 6th November 2025 Places available

Photography Competition

9S5 Cover 23/10/25

Bronze DofE Enrolment Letter 2025-2026

Parents Evening :: Year 12

School Policies

Discover...

Film Studies Do The Right Thing ZEN The Guardian GCE GCSE YouTube Hollywood Hitchcock Year 13 Cinematography Sound Vertigo No Film School Week Chemistry Cinema Year 10 Year 11 GCSE Drama NEA Coursework Videos Photography

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...