I'll Fly Away is an American drama television series set during the late 1950s and early 1960s, in an unspecified Southern U.S. state. It aired on NBC from 1991 to 1993 and starred Regina Taylor as Lilly Harper, a black housekeeper for the family of district attorney Forrest Bedford, whose name is an ironic reference to Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder of the Ku Klux Klan. As the show progressed, Lilly became increasingly involved in the Civil Rights Movement, with events eventually drawing in Forrest as well.
I'll Fly Away won two 1992 Emmy Awards, and 23 nominations in total. It won three Humanitas Prizes, two Golden Globe Awards, two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Drama Series, and a Peabody Award. However, the series was never a ratings blockbuster, and it was canceled by NBC in 1993, despite widespread protests by critics and viewer organizations.
After the program's cancellation, a two-hour movie, I'll Fly Away: Then and Now, was produced, in order to resolve dangling storylines from Season 2, and provide the series with a true finale. The movie aired on October 11, 1993 on PBS. Its major storyline closely paralleled the true story of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi. Thereafter, PBS began airing repeats of the original episodes, ceasing after one complete showing of the entire series.
Miniserie de TV. 8 episodios. Crónica del movimiento por el derecho de los homosexuales en los Estados Unidos, arrancando en Stonewall en 1969.
Una narrativa envolvente que cuenta la historia épica de la guerra de Vietnam como nunca antes se había contado en una película. Con el testimonio de casi 80 testigos, incluidos muchos estadounidenses que lucharon en la guerra y otros que se opusieron, así como combatientes vietnamitas y civiles de ambos lados.
Showcasing the heroic deeds in and from every aspect of government and society, in a common quest to make the world a better place, free of corruption, discrimination and civil rights violations from around the globe!
Narra la historia de la amistad, supervivencia y triunfo de tres mujeres (Angelina Jolie, Dana Delany y Annabeth Gish) que, durante 50 años superan todo tipo de adversidades. Pasan toda clase de calamidades durante la guerra de Tejas con México para alcanzar la indepoendencia. Tras la caída de El Álamo, logran incluso escapar del despiadado General Santa Anna. (FILMAFFINITY)
The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister in the South of the 1950s until his assassination in Memphis in 1968.
Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose from humble origins to cross baseball’s color line and become one of the most beloved men in America. A fierce integrationist, Robinson used his immense fame to speak out against the discrimination he saw on and off the field, angering fans, the press, and even teammates who had once celebrated him for “turning the other cheek.” After baseball, he was a widely-read newspaper columnist, divisive political activist and tireless advocate for civil rights, who later struggled to remain relevant as diabetes crippled his body and a new generation of leaders set a more militant course for the civil rights movement.
Through the eyes of various Irish Republican Army (IRA) members, explore the extremes some people will go to in the name of their beliefs, the way a deeply divided society can suddenly tip over into armed conflict, the long shadow of radical violence for both victims and perpetrators, and the emotional and psychological costs of a code of silence.
Fictional portrayal of 'The Summer of 1990' in Kanehsatake: the major conflict between a Mohawk community and the Canadian and Quebec governments - over the expansion of a golf course into an aboriginal cemetery.
A look at the last five decades of African American history since the major civil rights victories through the eyes of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., exploring the tremendous gains and persistent challenges of these years.
Asesinato en Mississippi es una película para televisión de 1990, que dramatizó las últimas semanas de activistas de los derechos civiles Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman y James Chaney, y los acontecimientos que condujeron a su desaparición y posterior asesinato en el verano de 1964. Fue protagonizada por Tom Hulce como Schwerner, Jennifer Grey como su esposa Rita, Blair Underwood como Chaney, y Josh Charles como Goodman. Hulce recibió una nominación al mejor actor en una miniserie de televisión en los Globos de Oro 1990. Como un docudrama histórico, Asesinato en Mississippi precede a las historias de Ataque de los años 1975 contra el terrorismo: El FBI contra el Ku Klux Klan y de 1988 Arde Mississippi. 'Asesinato en Mississippi es el título de una pintura 1964 Norman Rockwell, que representa a los mismos eventos. La pintura también se conoce como: "La justicia meridional."