Black Theatre: the Making of a Movement recaptures the birth of a new theatre from the Civil Rights activism of the 1950s, '60s and '70s. It is a veritable video encyclopedia of the leading figures, institutions and events of a movement which transformed the American stage.

Amiri Baraka, Ed Bullins, James Earl Jones and Ntozake Shange describe their aspirations for a theatre serving the black community. Clips from A Raisin in the Sun, Black Girl, Dutchman and For Colored Girls... reveal how these actors and playwrights laid the basis for the black theatre of the present.




Black Literature and Theater
Civil Rights History

"An extraordinary documentary...A must for every contemporary theatre course."
-- Margaret Wilkerson, University of California, Berkeley

"Brilliantly captures the essence, soul and spirit of the Movement...Required viewing."
-- Larry Hamlin, National Black Theatre Festival

Producer/Director: Woody King, Jr.
114 minutes, 1978

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