Eyes on the prize
Subtitle: America's civil rights years
By: a production of Blackside ; creator and executive producer, Henry Hampton ; series writer, Steve Fayer ; series producer, Jon Else ; executive producer for American experience, Mark Samels ; WGBH Boston ; PBS
Contributors: Vecchione, Judith; Bagwell, Orlando; DeVinney, James A.; Crossley, Callie; Bond, Julian, 1940-; Blackside, Inc; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.); Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.); PBS Home Video
Edition: Full screen.
Publisher: PBS Distribution
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [United States]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781608831067
Subjects: Civil rights movements; Personal narratives; History; African Americans; Civil rights; Race relations
Other titles: America's civil rights years; Eyes on the prize :; American experience (Television program)
Description: The definitive story of the Civil Rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations are felt today.
Notes: Originally broadcast in 1986 as a special presentation of The American experience.

Special feature: Disc 1. Interview with Henry Hampton.

Associate producers, Llewellyn M. Smith, Prudence Arndt ; edited by Daniel Eisenberg, Jeanne Jordan, Charles Scott ; senior researcher, Laurie Kahn-Leavitt ; camera, Jon Else ... [et al.] ; theme music produced, arranged and performed by Bernice Johnson Reagon ; series title animation, Colossal Pictures ; academic advisors, Wiley Branton, Clayborne Carson, John Dittmer, Tony Freyer, David Garrow, Paul Gaston, Vincent Harding, Darlene Clark Hine, Steve Lawson, Genna Rae McNeil, Aldon Morris, J. Mills Thornton, Howard Zinn.

Narrated by Julian Bond.

Rating: TV-PG.

DVD; NTSC, region 1; stereo.

Closed-captioned.
Table of contents: title: Disc 1.; title: Awakenings, 1954-1956  -- produced and directed by Judith Vecchione ;; title: Fighting back, 1957-1962  -- produced and directed by Judith Vecchione -- Disc 2.; title: Ain't scared of your jails, 1960-1961  -- produced and directed by Orlando Bagwell ;; title: No easy walk, 1961-1963  -- produced, directed and written by James A. DeVinney, Callie Crossley -- Disc 3.; title: Mississippi :; title: Is this America? 1962-1964  -- produced and directed by Orlando Bagwell ;; title: Bridge to freedom, 1965 -- produced, directed and written by Callie Crossley, James A. DeVinney.