Firelight Films (Firm)
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The first feature-length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails.
2) Attica
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Survivors, observers and expert government officials recount the 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility, when a violent five-day standoff between mostly black and latino inmates and law enforcement took place.
4) Jesse Owens
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Despite Jesse Owens's remarkable victories in the face of Nazi racism at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the athlete struggled to find a place for himself in a United States that was still wrestling to overcome its own deeply entrenched bias.