Unforgivable blackness
Subtitle: the rise and fall of Jack Johnson
By: a Florentine Films production ; a film directed by Ken Burns ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; produced by David Schaye, Paul Barnes, Ken Burns ; American Lives Film Project ; WETA
Contributors: Jackson, Samuel L.; Crouch, Stanley; Jones, James Earl; Early, Gerald Lyn; Marsalis, Wynton, 1961-; Squires, Buddy; McCarthy, Stephen (Cinematographer); Ewers, Erik; Florentine Films; American Lives Film Project; WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.); Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm); PBS Home Video
Edition: Widescreen ed.
Publisher: PBS Distribution
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Alexandria, Va.]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Race relations; Boxing; Boxers (Sports); Sports upsets; Discrimination in sports; African American boxers; Tournaments; Biography; History
Other titles: Rise and fall of Jack Johnson
Description: The story of Jack Johnson, who was the first African American boxer to win the Heavyweight Champion of the World. Includes his struggles in and out of the ring and his desire to live his life as a free man in race-obsessed America.
Notes: Originally produced for PBS television in 2004.

Special features: the making of 'Unforgivable blackness'; footage not shown on PBS broadcast; special music video featuring Wynton Marsalis.

Cinematographers, Buddy Squires, Stephen McCarthy; editors, Paul Barnes, Erik Ewers; original music composer, Wynton Marsalis.

Narrator: Keith David; voice of Jack Johnson: Samuel L. Jackson; interviews with: Stanley Crouch, James Earl Jones, Gerald Early, Jose Torres, Randy Roberts, Jack Newfield, Bert Sugar, W.C. Heinz, George Plimpton.

MPAA rating: Not rated ; Canadian home video rating: PG.

DVD, region 1, NTSC, ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound ; stereo.

English dialogue; closed-captioned.