What if the revolution was televised... and then we changed the channel?
The film questions whether the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s effectively changed the Black community, and American society more widely, and examines the notion of Black power itself. Greaves interviewed major Black leaders, such as Franklin Thomas, Clifton Wharton Jr., Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Lerone Bennett Jr. to present a candid take on issues within the African American community, revealing wider societal problems in America at large.
Direction
Greaves lets his subjects argue—no tidy documentary bow.
Editing
Cuts between 1960s hope and 1980s reckoning hit hard.
Director
William Greaves
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