Many of you know quite well that "Eyes on The Prize" was a landmark television broadcast on the civil rights movement. If you saw it, then you either did so when it originally aired on PBS in 1987 and part 2 in 1990. Or you caught it later because someone had the good sense to record it. Caught up in legal wrangling, it hasn't aired in years. (Copyright issues kept it from airing since 1990)
Executive produced by the late (great) filmmaker Henry Hampton, it's an exhaustive account of the civil rights movement.
Beginning this Monday (Oct. 2) and extending through Oct. 9 and the 16th,
"Eyes on the Prize" will return to PBS -- on the American Experience. Monday night at 9 pm (and each Monday on the dates listed). Check your local listings.
Those of you interested in Documentary films will find Eyes on the Prize the "Citizen Kane" of that genre. It will FINALLY be released as a boxed set, Oct 24 for $375.00
You can read about the legal issues surrounding this film at in a
2004 Wired article
Michael Horton
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