Change the Subject is a 2019 documentary film directed by Jill Baron and Sawyer Broadley.

[2] By 2014, many news organizations in the US, including the Associated Press, USA Today, American Broadcasting Company, Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, had already ceased using the term "illegal" to refer to migrants lacking visa documentation.

The film centers around Óscar Rubén Cornejo Cásares and Melissa Padilla, who noticed the term "Illegal aliens" appearing in the library catalog at Dartmouth College while they were completing their undergraduate degrees.

[4] The students and other librarians then successfully petitioned the American Library Association (ALA) to endorse the revision.

LC accepted and agreed to change the term, but faced a backlash from several Republican members of Congress.