Eyes Back On The Prize
Although this post is coming to you a day late, it’s still a good idea to catch the remaining 4 scheduled episodes of “Eyes on the Prize“, PBS’s 1987 award winning documentary on the Civil Rights movement in American. The 14 hr series has not aired since 1993 because of an uncensored word appearing in episode 6. I remember watching this in high school and it was pretty shocking especially for American growing up in the suburbs of Texas. I shouldn’t even compare this documentary to Spike Lee’s When The Levees Broke, but this documentary really gets you thinking about the state of the American rights, both then and now, beyond the emotional impulsive responses that were ever-present in When The Levees Broke.
Eye On The Prize
America’s Civil Right Movement 1954-1985
American Experience, PBS
Eyes On The Prize website with complete transcripts
Episodes 1-2: October 2 2006, 9:00-11:00 p.m.
1-Awakenings (1954-1956)
2-Fighting Back (1957-1962)
Episodes 3-4: October 9, 2006, 9:00-11:00 p.m.
3-Ain’t Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961)
4-No Easy Walk (1961-1963)
Episodes 5-6: October 16, 2006, 9:00-11:00 p.m.
5-Mississippi: Is This America? (1963-1964)
6-Bridge to Freedom (1965)
The additional 8 episodes/8hrs will be air sometime in the future, PBS makes no indication when that will be…
7-The Time Has Come (1964-66)
8-Two Societies (1965-68)
9-Power! (1966-68)
10-The Promised Land (1967-68)
11-Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-72)
12-A Nation of Law? (1968-71)
13-The Keys to the Kingdom (1974-80)
14-Back to the Movement (1979-mid 80s)