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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement is an American television series and 14-part documentary about the 20th-century civil rights movement in the United States. [1] The documentary originally aired on the PBS network, and it also aired in the United Kingdom on BBC2 .
The documentary film is the life story of Robert F. Williams, his role in the US civil rights movement, his exiles to Cuba and China, and his return from China. It also contains witness testimonies of many of the events described in Williams' 1962 book Negroes with Guns.
A Force More Powerful is a 1999 feature-length documentary film and a 2000 PBS series written and directed by Steve York about nonviolent resistance movements around the world. Executive producers were Dalton Delan and Jack DuVall. [1] [2] Peter Ackerman was the series editor and principal content advisor.
[5] [6] [16] [17] Eyes on the Prize was a 14-hour documentary series on the history of the American civil rights movement, broadcast on PBS in 1987 and 1990. The series was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1988. [6]
Freedom Riders is a 2010 American historical documentary film, produced by Firelight Media for the twenty-third season of American Experience on PBS. The film is based in part on the book Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice by historian Raymond Arsenault . [ 1 ]
Freedom Summer is a 2014 American documentary film, written, produced and directed by Stanley Nelson Jr. [1] [2] The film had its world premiere at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014. [3] It won the Best Documentary award at 2014 Pan African Film Festival. [4] The film had its U.S. television premiere at PBS on June 24, 2014. [5] [6]
The noted 1987 PBS documentary series about the Civil Rights Movement, Eyes on the Prize, was named for the song, and the song is used in each episode as the opening theme music. [15] The 1993 Maya Angelou book Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now is titled after a lyric in the song.
Dolores is a 2017 American documentary directed by Peter Bratt, on the life of Chicana labor union activist Dolores Huerta.It was produced by Brian Benson for PBS, with Benjamin Bratt and Alpita Patel serving as consulting producers and Carlos Santana as executive producer.