Eyes on the prize [videorecording] : America's civil rights years, 1954-1965 / creator and executive producer, Henry Hampton ; a production of Blackside.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmPublisher number: EYES600 | PBS Home VideoPublication details: Alexandria, VA : PBS Home Video, 2010.Description: 3 videodiscs (360 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 9786313427093 : DVD
  • 6313427092 : DVD
  • 9781608831067
  • 160883106X
Other title:
  • America's civil rights years, 1954-1965
Uniform titles:
  • Eyes on the prize (Television program)
  • American experience (Television program)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DVD E 185.61 .E94 2010
Contents:
Disc 1. Awakenings (1954-1956) -- Fighting back (1957-1962) -- Disc 2. Ain't scared of your jails (1960-1961) -- No easy walk (1961-1963) -- Disc 3. Mississippi: Is this America? (1962-1964) -- Bridge to freedom (1965).
Production credits:
  • 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.
Julian Bond, narrator.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.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection DVD E 185.61 .E94 2010 DISC1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available .PUBLIC. Disc 1. 98646031
Book Storms Research Center Main Collection DVD E 185.61 .E94 2010 DISC2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available .PUBLIC. Disc 2. 98646030
Book Storms Research Center Main Collection DVD E 185.61 .E94 2010 DISC3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available .PUBLIC. Disc 3. 98646029

Originally produced in 1986, as a special presentation of American experience.

Special feature: interview with Henry Hampton.

Disc 1. Awakenings (1954-1956) -- Fighting back (1957-1962) -- Disc 2. Ain't scared of your jails (1960-1961) -- No easy walk (1961-1963) -- Disc 3. Mississippi: Is this America? (1962-1964) -- Bridge to freedom (1965).

Julian Bond, narrator.

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.

TV rating: TV-PG.

DVDs, stereo.

For private home use only.

Closed-captioned.

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.

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