Season 1
9 episodes · Nov 21, 1966
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- S1E1
Lay My Burden Down
Nov 21, 1966This documentary concentrates on the hardships of black tenant farmers and their families in the Selma, Alabama region. One family of ten survives on only $1,000 a year in a system that has changed little since the days of reconstruction after the Civil War. The sharecroppers work the land owned by white landowners as they struggle to make ends meet. One farmer explains that black people are never offered a loan of more than $50. Another man is evicted for not turning his check from the federal government over to his landlord. A mother's only wish is that her prayers are answered so she can feed and clothe her family.
- S1E2
Losing Just The Same
Nov 28, 1966This documentary reflects on the lives and aspirations of an African American family - the Johns - who moved to West Oakland from Louisiana, focusing on Robert Lee Johns and his mother Agnes. A voiceover prefaces the film with a statement that it presents: "A story of people caught in a lifelong struggle between their hopes and their abilities and their discovery that no matter how hard they try they will be losing just the same."
- S1E4
The Last Chance
Dec 19, 1966Documentary shot in the sixty's about Fr McDyer and the work he did in Glencolmcille and surrounding areas to get employment for local people at a time of a lot of emigration.
- S1E5
Headstart in Mississippi
- S1E6
How to Be First
- S1E7
Opium Trail
- S1E8
Schizophrenia: The Shattered Mirror
- S1E9
Search for the Lost Self