VHS : Eyes on the Prize Box Set: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 (6 Video Set)
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directed by: Henry Hampton
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302502664
Format: Box set, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302502667
Label: PBS Home Video
Manufacturer: PBS Home Video
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: PBS Home Video
Release Date: October 15, 1992
Running Time: 360 minutes
Sales Rank: 15694
Studio: PBS Home Video
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - If only this video were more widely available.
I've just been able to see most of these six episodes in a public screening at a college. They cover the civil rights movement from about 1955-1965. (There's an Eyes on the Prize II that I haven't seen, containing another six episodes about the movement after 1965.)
I came to watch the first episode with a bit of trepidation, lest the series should turn out to be a bit of white-bashing propaganda. Instead I discovered that it was a very moving, well-edited, evenhanded, and highly ... Read More
Rating: - Eyes on the Prize
This is in my view the best documentary about Black History there has ever been on TV. It is moving, inspirational, accurate, objective and makes the point of the movement and the people wonderfully well. It should be for everyone, Black, White, Chinese. I would like this documentary on DVD in order to pass this on to my nephews and nieces. Anyone interested in history needs this documentary.
Rating: - This is not only educational, but inspirational as well.
This movie starts with the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement and ends in the mid-1980's. It is really detailed and in depth. It starts the Civil Rights Movement at B.M. (Before Martain Luther King Jr.) and continues through his life and work, into the mid-1980's. I think that if you are an educator, parent, or just like history you will love this video. If you are an African-American parent, teacher, etc. and want to give your children, students, etc. a sense of history (their history) ... Read More
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