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Eyes on the Prize
1987 · TV series · documentary · 60 min episodes · 2 seasons
Created by Henry Hampton
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 reverberation continue to be felt today.
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I'll throw my hat in the ring here and mention a project I did in 2014, redesigning a history documentary about civil rights in the 50s and 60s in the US called Eyes on the Prize: http://glench.com/EyesOnThePrize/
There was a PBS Documentary, "Eyes on the Prize" which we bought on DVD as part of our home school curriculum. Then it was taken off the market as a dispute arose between the King family estate[1] and PBS. The King family gave only enough copy right to show the program on PBS, once. And any other use was not sanctioned, we loaned our copy to the high school so that they could show it to their students.
It was such a remarkably egregious thing, I was amazed that more people weren't up in arms about it.
[1] http://www.current.org/2010/03/eyes-on-the-prize-triumphs-over-copyright-complications/
You can also sing the happy birthday song for him on MLK's birthday, in defiance of copyright.
This is even more apt than you think:
"In the 1987 documentary Eyes on the Prize about the US Civil Rights Movement, there was a birthday party scene in which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s discouragement began to lift. After its initial release, the film was unavailable for sale or broadcast for many years because of the cost of clearing many copyrights, of which "Happy Birthday to You" was one. Grants in 2005 for copyright clearances[15] have allowed PBS to rebroadcast the film as recently as February 2008.[16]"
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You