Early in his directing career, Brian De Palma made this documentary with Ken Burrows. It concerns the discrimination faced by African Americans in the 1960s and the work that it took to establish legal and social precedents that bridged the gap between hard-earned legal victories and the implementation of laws to protect them.
This doesn’t have much of the style that De Palma would come to show in his career, but to be fair, it’s a documentary. This is more about the left wing roots of the director and how he wanted to help document a moment in our country’s history that for some reason, it feels like we’re never going to move past. The fact that people had to fight to be, well, people keeps going.
You can watch this on YouTube.
