PBS reairing "Eyes on the Prize" - NOW

[StellaBlue]

Dunno if this is on in your area, but it's on KERA and KLRU in Texas.

That's what I'm talking about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awesome, awesome program.

[Patchuli]

1. Was that the one about Cheney, et al.? nt

[AlCzervik]

3. It's about civil Rights.

[SunDrop23]

2. It is excellent.

[Kahuna]

4. Thanks for the head's up. This is the original from 1987..

Excellent series. Should be required watching for all Americans. I'm going to record this and make lots of copies.


:yourock:

[Pirate Smile]

5. Damn, I was going to tape it. I know how hard it is to get now because

of the battles over many issues. I hate that because everyone needs to see it. All kids should watch this in school.

Our Country would be much better off if this was part of the required history curriculum for all students. I think many (if not most) adults need to see it too.

[Kahuna]

6. I was looking for this a year ago and could not find it any where...

There was a newer version on ebay for $400.00. But this version wasn't available anywhere. Check the PBS website. It will be reaired.

[Pirate Smile]

7. Well, I guess they must have cleared up some of the problems since it is

airing on PBS.

Eyes on the Prize, the landmark documentary on the civil rights movement, is no longer broadcast or sold new in the United States. It's illegal.

The 14-part series highlights key events in black Americans' struggle for equality and is considered an essential resource by educators and historians, but the filmmakers no longer have clearance rights to much of the archival footage used in the documentary. It cannot be rebroadcast on PBS (where it originally aired) or any other channels, and cannot be released on DVD until the rights are cleared again and paid for.

"It's a scenario from hell," said Jon Else, series producer and cinematographer for Eyes on the Prize, and now director of the documentary program at the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. "(Licensing agreements) are short because it's all we can afford. The funding for documentaries in this country (is) abysmal."

-snip-

"It is the principal film account of the most important American social justice movement of the 20th century," said Clayborne Carson, a Stanford University history professor and editor of Martin Luther King Jr.'s papers.

Hampton and his colleagues combined footage from numerous sources to tell the story of the civil rights movement. They used their own individual interviews with leaders like Andrew Young and Ralph Abernathy, as well as interviews with average citizens who participated. They added newsreel footage, clips from local television stations, still photographs and music. That involved clearing rights from all different sources, with various time limits on how long the footage could be used.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66106,00.html

[Kahuna]

9. Thanks for the info. I could not understand why this was out of

circulation. To get a couple of the episodes is a rare opportunity and I'm taking it. I've got my vcr and dvr recorders set to catch the reruns on the 4th and 9th.

[SharonAnn]

8. Thank you. I would have missed it. It's wonderful! So much I didn't

know about this time. I was around 9 or 10 when all this started and really was only peripherally aware of it. It wasn't until I got to college, 1963 - 1967, that I became aware of the integration issues around voter registration.