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DVD,DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming and Three-Year Site/Local Streaming Renewal 114 minutes, 1978 Producer/Director: Woodie King, Jr. ABOUT THE FILM Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement documents the birth of a new theatre out of the Civil Rights activism of the 1950s, '60s and '70s. It is a veritable video encyclopedia of the leading figures, institutions and events of a movement that transformed the American stage. Amiri Baraka, Ossie Davis, James Earl Jones and Ntozake Shange describe their aspirations for a theatre serving the Black community. Excerpts of A Raisin in the Sun, Black Girl, Dutchman and For Colored Girls... reveal how these actors and playwrights laid the basis for the Black theater of the present. About Woodie King, Jr. Founder and Director, New Federal Theatre The Impact of Race -Book by Woodie King, Jr. Black Theatre Association, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Black Theatre Network and Conference "The Black Arts Movement," article by Kalamu ya Salaam PRICING College/Corporation/Gov't Agency DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming License  $195.00 DVD + 3-Year Site/Local Streaming High Schools, Public Libraries, HBCU & Qualifying Community Organization Discounted DVD License Without Streaming Rights  $49.95 DVD Home Video Streaming at VIMEO DVD no longer available for Home use. See OTHER DIGITAL OPTIONS. Select a license and format and click "Add" OTHER DIGITAL OPTIONS Vimeo - Home video streaming rentals Alexander Street Press - Single title subscriptions Films Media Group - Academic collection subscriptions Kanopy - Single title subscriptions Please place all digital subscription and rental orders directly with those providers. CRITICAL COMMENT "An extraordinary documentary...A must for every contemporary theatre course." Margaret Wilkerson, former Director, Center for Theatre Arts, U.C. Berkeley "Brilliantly captures the essence, soul and spirit of the Movement...Required viewing." Larry Hamlin, National Black Theatre Festival RELATED VIDEOS BLACK PANTHER / SAN FRANCISCO STATE: ON STRIKE ONE SHOT: THE LIFE AND WORK OF TEENIE HARRIS

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