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...

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

Film Studies: editing

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

One-Minute Time Machine | Sploid Short Film Festival ยท Official Selection

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

Do the Right Thing - Screenshot podcast

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

Film editing: Everything you need to know

Carol (2015) Behind the Scenes - Part 1/2

3 Hitchcock Techniques Magnified

New...

Film Academy Shorts

Simon Pegg Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters |

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

HERCULES THE MUSICAL- Years 7 & 8. London

STARLIGHT EXPRESS, London. Thursday 2nd October. Closed

29_09_25 7yA Cover

Year 7 tutors/parents evening

Managing In-Game Spending

Discover...

Film Studies Do The Right Thing ZEN The Guardian GCE GCSE YouTube Year 13 Science Year 7 Screenplay Offscreen2 Cinema Captain Fantastic Theatre Hartismere Vimeo Chemistry Silent Film Year 11 Week Term Dates Year 8

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...