Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Eyes on the prize [videorecording] : America's civil rights years / a production of Blackside ; creator and executive producer, Henry Hampton ; series writer, Steve Fayer ; series producer, Jon Else ; executive producer for American experience, Mark Samels ; WGBH Boston ; PBS.

Edition:

Fullscreen.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : PBS Home Video, [2010]

Description:

3 videodiscs (360 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

The definitive story of the Civil Rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations are felt today.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: TV-PG.

Subjects:

Civil rights movements -- United States -- 20th century -- Personal narratives.

Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Documentary films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Vecchione, Judith.

Bagwell, Orlando.

DeVinney, James A.

Crossley, Callie.

Hampton, Henry, 1940-1998.

Else, Jon.. 1944-

Samels, Mark.

Fayer, Steve, 1935-

Bond, Julian, 1940-2015

Blackside, Inc.

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

PBS Home Video.

Other Title:

America's civil rights years [videorecording]

Title on container: Eyes on the prize : America's civil rights years, 1954-1965.

American experience (Television program)

Notes:

Originally broadcast in 1986 as a special presentation of The American experience.

Special feature: Disc 1. Interview with Henry Hampton.

Associate producers, Llewellyn M. Smith, Prudence Arndt ; edited by Daniel Eisenberg, Jeanne Jordan, Charles Scott ; senior researcher, Laurie Kahn-Leavitt ; camera, Jon Else ... [et al.] ; academic advisors, Wiley Branton, Clayborne Carson, John Dittmer, Tony Freyer, David Garrow, Paul Gaston, Vincent Harding, Darlene Clark Hine, Steve Lawson, Genna Rae McNeil, Aldon Morris, J. Mills Thornton, Howard Zinn ; theme music produced, arranged and performed by Bernice Johnson Reagan ; series title animation, Colossal Pictures.

Narrated by Julian Bond.

DVD; NTSC, region 1; stereo.

Closed-captioned.

Contents:

Awakenings, 1954-1956 / produced and directed by Judith Vecchione -- Fighting back, 1957-1962 / produced and directed by Judith Vecchione -- Ain't scared of your jails, 1960-1961 / produced and directed by Orlando Bagwell -- No easy walk, 1961-1963 / produced, directed and written by James A. DeVinney, Callie Crossley -- Mississippi: Is this America? 1962-1964 / produced and directed by Orlando Bagwell -- Bridge to freedom, 1965 / produced, directed and written by Callie Crossley, James A. DeVinney.

ISBN:

9781608831067

160883106X

Publisher Number:

EYES600

Other Number:

498467105

System Availability:

3

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

3

Control Number:

290642

# Local items in:

3

# System items in:

3

Call Number:

DVD 323.40973 Eyes on

Medium:

[videorecording]