"I know the one thing we did right, was the day we started to fight! Keep your eyes on the prize!"

[marym625]

If you have never seen the documentary, "Eye On The Prize" you should. It is a 6 part series about the civil rights movement in the US. It is powerful, heartbreaking, heartwarming and accurate.

What is so very sad, besides the obvious, is how so much is still true today. In watching we see how far backward we have gone after making some strides forward.

Our country is pushing us all into a type of slavery. They are starting with the same groups they pushed down before. People of color, women and the poor.

This is episode 1

http://freedocumentaries.org/int.php?filmID=370


This is actually a repost of mine but it should be seen by everyone in the US.

[cui bono]

1. Thanks for the link to that site!

I actually just searched Netflix and Amazon Prime for Eyes on the Prize. I have the vhs set! But I never watched the whole thing and now I don't have a vhs deck hooked up. (I do still have one though!)

Too bad that site only has the first episode of each season. Might have to set up that deck...

[marym625]

2. It has every episode

From both. I watched all 16 of them from that site. I'm watching Weather Underground now.

[cui bono]

7. Weird. I only saw the first of each season listed.

I'll have to look into it further later.

Thanks for letting me know!

[marym625]

8. The link I had posted was just the first episode

Here's the link to the search "eye on the prize" It shows all episodes

http://freedocumentaries.org/search?q=eye+on+the+prize

The second serious is called Eyes on the Prize so it might not have that. Just go to the main site and search for what you want

[BrotherIvan]

3. An EXCELLENT series

Thank you for posting. I may have to watch it again. I loved it.

[marym625]

6. You're welcome

It's worth watching again. And there are a ton of other documentaries on the site. Watched Weather Underground last night. Was really good

[Behind the Aegis]

4. They can also be found on YouTube.

I double checked and all parts are on YouTube. A few are not really good quality, but there are a few which are.

[marym625]

5. This site has great quality

I love this site. There are so many great documentaries on it and it's all free. They don't ask you for any information. They do have an annoying thing in the right hand corner of the movie to link to twitter, Facebook, etc but if you make it full screen, it goes away.

[hfojvt]

9. I watched it four or five years ago

Our library had the whole series on DVD.

I found it to be pretty astounding. To me, it showed clear differences between the not so distant past and today.

I didn't notice anything about backward. What has gone backward, and who is "THEY"?

[marym625]

10. They = TPTB

Backwards, the dismantling of the VRA, Affirmative Action, etc.

We moved forward a bit following the movement of the 50s through 70s. Recently, we have started to regress. The overt racist remarks from much of the general public shows that as well.