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Eyes on The Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965
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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 extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today. Winner of numerous awards, Eyes on the Prize is the most critically acclaimed documentary on civil rights in America.
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One of the essential documentary series from 20th-century television, Eyes on the Prize is an extraordinary, grassroots history of the civil rights movement in 1950s and '60s America. Leaving punditry and debate to others, this six-hour program concerns itself with the individuals who were there, who participated on the front lines, who witnessed and survived to tell about the crusade's tragedies and victories. Starting with a pair of mid-'50s heroic actions in the South that helped galvanize black and white activism against institutional racism (actions that included Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama), the series winds its way through the exponential growth of the movement to the passage of the Voting Rights Act and beyond. The epochal battle between states-rights advocates and federal authorities is well-covered, as are the many sacrifices made and enormous risks taken by Mississippi Freedom Riders and advocates of black voter registration. --Tom Keogh
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"Required Watching" --New York Magazine
"Indispensable" --Time Magazine
"Shouldn't Be Missed"--Los Angeles Times
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.9 x 5.4 x 7.6 inches; 8.8 ounces
- Item model number : 6633059
- Director : Henry Hampton
- Media Format : Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Box set, Multiple Formats
- Run time : 6 hours
- Release date : April 6, 2010
- Language : English (Stereo)
- Studio : PBS
- ASIN : B0031WNYHK
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 3
- Best Sellers Rank: #11,298 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #117 in Special Interests (Movies & TV)
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The documentary is brilliantly produced and directed and the use of the people who were in the middle of the movement is what makes this documentary so powerful. This documentary is inspiring to me for two reasons: It reminds me of the work I did in the late 1960s in the Boston area and how much more work needs to be done as I teach my justice and society course.
Although anyone can sit anywhere on a bus today and eat at any lunch counter, the proliferation and expansion of the criminal justice system in the past 30 plus years, and the payment of that system from funds that used to be dedicated to greatly needed social service programs, should cause us to continue the fight of those depicted in the documentary. We now have the new racism and classism in this country, although more subtle and covert. Eyes on the Prize should inspire us all to continue the quest for the Prize (Dream). It is as important as the ancient quest for the Holy Grail.
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The programmes speak for themselves and build a turbulent story which has not ended. What is clear is that following the reconstruction after the civil war ended in 1865 in effect a second civil war needed to fought in America particularly following that period where unrealized goals of economic and racial justice were laid bare by racist Jim Crow laws (first introduced in 1876). Similarly we see the growth of the outrageous doctrine of "separate but equal" status for Black Americans which in effect mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in numerous states enforced in law by Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 which allowed state-sponsored segregation. It was not until the State-sponsored school segregation was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education led by the immense figure of Justice Earl Warren that that legal force combined with moral authority to produce years of radical activism in which blacks and whites together were assaulted, beaten to a pulp, attacked by dogs, mown down by fire hoses and murdered in places such as Selma, Montgomery, Greensboro and throughout Mississippi. The sheer bravery of the freedom riders screams out of this series as does the sheer terror that civil rights activist endured. There are episodes when you watch this series that you will literally fume and rage in anger at the appalling ignorance and stupidity of a section of white southerners whose many comments are too offensive to repeat here. Any one watching Mayor Joseph Smitherman of Selma, Alabama in 1965 and his infamous television aired mis-pronunciation of King's surname will witness a society where blatantly racist speech and attitude infused everyday life and culture. Likewise witnessing one of the key episodes on Birmingham it is hard not to hate Eugene "Bull" Connor the Public Safety Commissioner of Birmingham, Alabama in the 1960s, and a infamous symbol of bigotry. The story of a range of Southern governors particularly the contradictory figure of George Wallace squaring off with the US president John F Kennedy and his brother and Attorney General Bobby Kennedy is a fascinating political dual.
And all the while the figure of King and the trails and tribulations he suffered, but also the victories he achieved and the strength of character that he and other leaders displayed are at the forefront. Those words King uttered on the night before his assassination at the Lorraine motel in Memphis on April 4th 1968 remain infused with huge poignancy but also hope, as he stated "And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord". You also fully understand that by the time of Kings assassination that the moral authority of the non violent movement was beginning to dramatically wane as a more more militant and confrontational form of black activism emerged particularly with the Black Panthers who moved toward Maoism and led the hugely controversial FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover to call the party "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country".
The driving force behind Eyes on the Prize was Henry Hampton (1940-1998) who won many awards for this remarkable series in which he set out to tell "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 continue to be felt today". The experience of watching this series is itself a journey from early idealism to hard edged revolutionary politics. On times it is a deeply disturbing, uncomfortable and tragic viewing experience. Yet wherever your sympathies lie on this tapestry of black activism you will recognise that fundamentally "Eyes on the prize" is non fictional tale of "human drama" which touches your basic humanity and tugs at your soul creating genuine admiration for a generation who literally put their lives on the line.
日本では80年代に、NHK教育テレビの「海外ドキュメンタリー」という番組で「アメリカ公民権運動」という(そっけない)タイトルで放映されています。45分間という番組枠のため、60分のオリジナルから編集されて放映されました。このオリジナルDVDで新たな発見もあるかもしれません。
以前はDVD6枚組で$300超のものでしたが、これはDVD3枚組で発売された廉価版のようです。
およそ半世紀前のニュース映像主体なので、高画質は望めませんが貴重な映像ばかりです。リージョン・コードがかかっているので、リージョン・コード1対応プレーヤーまたはリージョンフリーのプレーヤーでしか再生できません。DVDの機能のうちの字幕にも対応していません。CC(クローズド・キャプション)に対応しているので、CC機器を利用できれば英語字幕を表示できます。
個人的には、続いて後半のセカンド・シーズンの廉価版のDVD集が早く発売されることを心から願っています。









