I remember thinking it was the most riveting television program I’d ever seen, and that it demonstrated the very best that the medium could be. Eyes on the Prize returns to television this Sunday night at 8 ET on the World Channel. The World Channel delivers the best of public television’s nonfiction, news and documentary […]
I remember thinking it was the most riveting television program I’d ever seen, and that it demonstrated the very best that the medium could be.
Eyes on the Prize returns to television this Sunday night at 8 ET on the World Channel.
The World Channel delivers the best of public television’s nonfiction, news and documentary programming through local public television stations and streaming online at worldchannel.org.
Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the Civil Rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose fought to end decades of discrimination and segregation.
Through contemporary interviews and historical footage, Eyes on the Prize I and II, traces the civil rights movement from the Montgomery bus boycott to the Voting Rights Act; from early acts of individual courage through the flowering of a mass movement and its eventual split into factions.
The late Julian Bond, political leader and civil rights activist, narrates.
This multi-part Academy Award nominated documentary is the winner of numerous Emmy Awards, a George Foster Peabody Award, an International Documentary Association Award, and a Television Critics Association Award.
“Almost three decades after first presenting Eyes on the Prize to public television audiences, WGBH is proud to make the series available to a new generation through the World Channel,” says Jon Abbott, WGBH’s president.
“And we are especially pleased that teachers and students will have access to new digital resources as they learn the powerful lessons this history conveys.”
Eyes on the Prize I features 6 episodes each of which will air on consecutive Sunday nights starting Sunday, January 17.
Eyes on the Prize II features 8 episodes each of which will air on consecutive Sunday nights starting Sunday, February 28.
(A new, original 30-minute special, Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now, will lead into the premiere January 17 of Eyes on the Prize, setting the groundbreaking documentary series in the context of today. Eyes on the Prize: Then and Now features Eyes on the Prize filmmakers, present-day activists, human rights leaders, and scholars. The special revisits key historical moments and explores commonalities with current national events.)
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