Eyes on the Prize (PBS Mini Series Boxed Set) (1986) Review

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(More customer reviews)"I know the one thing we did right, was the day we started to fight...keep your eyes on the prize, hold on my lord, hold on! " These are the lyrics to the music in the opening of each tape, in the Eyes on the Prize set. I consider this collection one of the most influential forms of film ever made. The power of the visuals, the singing, the interviews of the civil rights movement is so overwhelming throughout these videos. When I become a classroom teacher, I fully intend to use these videos to educate students about the experiences and injustice of the civil rights movement.
This documentary is one of my most prized possessions, which I value tremendously because it is an important tool in educating people about the civil rights movement in ways they cannot be educated through reading of books or articles.
It should be made mandatory in all schools to have the social studies teachers show this video. The students will definately walk away with a much different perspective on America and race relations - the perspective that offers the truth.
Who can dispute the horrible murders of Emmitt Till, Cheney Goodman & Schwerner, among countless of others? Eyes on the Prize does not cover up the graphic details of these situations, but rather shows them - close up. It'll leave images in your mind you will vividly remember for a long, long time. Then there's the era of MLKing, Jr. and the March on Washington. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, and the list goes on and on.
Unquestionably a video worth purchasing and watching over and over and over. You'll learn something new each time.

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Eyes on the Prize, the most comprehensive television documentary on the American civil rights movement ever produced, includes rare film footage and incisive present-day interviews to bring the events of this period to life. Two events of the mid-'50s propel the movement into the headlines: the Mississippi lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till, and the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, inspired by Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat to a white man. Walk with hundreds of thousands of protesters to the triumphant 1963 March on Washington. By the mid-'60s, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. confronts the powerful political machinery of Chicago's Mayer Richard Daley. As America enters the turbulent '70s, African Americans begin celebrating their own culture.

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