'' 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 . The film was commissioned by George Stevens Jr. of the United States Information Agency . 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 '' . The film is narrated by Jefferson Thomas , one of the Little Rock Nine , who died in 2010
37th Academy Awards
37th Academy Awards
Nine from Little Rock