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Emancipation Revelation/Revolution

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AMAZING ! I attended some of the best schools in the U.S. and never learned the things that are revealed in these videos. This should be distributed and made required curricula in every school in the country.

This DVD is an award-winning documentary about the history of the civil rights movement in America and the role that both major political parties have played in it. Between, the title of the film and the topic that it discusses my first impression was that the film must be boring. It's NOT Boring! The documentary is so informative and enlightens the viewer so much, that it is a film I wish would be shown in all schools in America. I have personally watched it several times and have shown it to many of my friends. It is well worth the money spent for a copy of this DVD, and there is a need for more accurate informative films such as this documentary.Also, checkout this interesting website and what they say: www.NBRA.info Then compare the DVD and the website. Money well spent!

Eye opening and revealing with enough footnotes for anyone to double-check the facts. Strongly recommended for those in grade 9 through 12 and older!

An absolutely mesmerizing account of a chapter in American history. This should be required veiwing for all high school students, adults that know nothing about the Black experience, and adults that think they know everything about the Black experience. This video is not harmful to children or anyones ideology. It does challenge what people believe to be truth. If people can accept the truth from those that actually lived it, it will go a long way towards healing the wounds of the past. Being a upper middle aged white guy, I found the video simply reinforced what I believed to be correct. I recommend this video for the entire nation.Emancipation Revelation/Revolution

I reviewed a beta version of ERR Video before it came out. It was not a Hollywood production, but it is an ABSOLUTELY EYE-OPENING, MUST SEE video!

I am ordering a final version for myself and a SECOND one to donate to our local public library.

PLEASE...consider buying one for yourself and a SECOND one to give to your own local library. The public NEEDS to see it!

Every High school student in America should view this DVD and learn the truth of why our government wants to keep people on the 'plantation' and the price that is being paid for such scandlizm.

Wish I could give it no stars!!! This film is total proof that todays Republican party is totally out of touch with America's community of color! After I finished laughing at the reenactment of Fredrick Douglass, I began to count the amount of times the word plantation was used! Propaganda rule #1: if you say something enough people will believe you! Everyone involved in this picture should be ashamed of themselves. A feeble attempt of todays republicans trying to take credit for plight of the abolitionist during the Civil War. A republican party who by no means would support a social program like the Freedman's Bureau today, and who only want to visit the NAACP to tell them to trade their food stamps for jobs! Buyers beware...this is an insult of your intelligence!

This is not "Eyes on the Prize." The film presents earnest Black American Conservative voices making the case that today's Democratic Party represents the interest of modern plantations, and that today's Republican Party is the same as Lincoln's. The film fails to point out that the Republican Party of today, especially in the South is in fact the heir of the Dixiecrat opponents of civil rights legislation in the 1960's. The current "liberal" welfare state is identified as the plantation. Head Start, food stamps, housing assistance, Aid to Families of Dependent Children, Medicaid, school lunch programs, day care assistance to working moms, etc., are all intended to keep the colored folk dependent on the "liberal" master. "Be free", the film exhorts, "Vote Republican." Although there are a lot of facts of history thrown around, the context is clearly selected to the Right. The film is provocative, but I would not characterize it as instructive. Let the buyer beware.