Directed by Stanley Nelson • 1999 • United States
THE BLACK PRESS: SOLDIERS WITHOUT SWORDS is a powerful and engaging account of the pioneering newspapermen and -women who gave voice to Black America. From facilitating the Great Migration from the South to northern cities to honoring Black soldiers in World War II, the Black press documented people who were otherwise ignored. This groundbreaking documentary by Stanley Nelson recounts the largely forgotten stories of generations of Black journalists who risked life and livelihood so that African Americans could represent themselves in their own words and images.
Directed by Stanley Nelson • 2004 • United States
Since the late nineteenth century, affluent African Americans have built summer communities to rest, socialize, and expose their children to a positive vision of Black life. Some resorts, like Idlewild, Michigan; Cape May, New Jersey; and Fox Lak...
Directed by Stanley Nelson • 2014 • United States
In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation’s eyes were fixed on Mississippi. Over ten pivotal weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than seven hundred student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort ...
Directed by Stanley Nelson • 2015 • United States
Change was coming to America and the fault lines could no longer be ignored. Cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding, and disputes raged over equality and civil rights. A new revolutionary culture was emerging, and it sought to drastically tra...
