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OT: Unforgivable Blackness - Jack Johnson

helionauthelionaut Posts: 1,555 ✭✭
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A new Ken Burns film, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, started running last night on PBS. It's 2 parts, 2 hours. Last night covered up to his big title fight against Jim Jeffries. Tonight moves onto the aftermath of his victory, where all sorts of hell break lose. Quality stuff as you'd expect from Burns.
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  • carew4mecarew4me Posts: 3,471 ✭✭✭✭
    Good show. I look forward the pt2 tonight.

    Loves me some shiny!
  • BillaBilla Posts: 210 ✭
    Simply awesome show. I drooled over some of the memorabilia . . . tickets, autographs, photos, posters used by Burns in its production. I'm sure both parts will be rerun, so watch your listings and watch this show!
  • Dallas88Dallas88 Posts: 746 ✭
    That was a powerful documentary highlighting the "black and white" conflict through boxing.

    Didn't Ken create the Baseball History documentary also?

    Unforgivable Blackness is definitely a show for the DVD collection.

    Dal

  • Love of the GameLove of the Game Posts: 250 ✭✭
    Burns is magnificent.

    The Baseball series - all nine "innings" of it - is one of the most amazing pieces of filmmaking I've ever seen. But his masterpiece is the "Jazz" series. Absolutely tremendous. I actually teared up during the segment when Louis Armstrong died - and I knew he was dead already. image

    Several people I know who previously disliked jazz became fans after seeing Burns' film.

    I hadn't heard about Unforgiveable Blackness, but you can bet I'll be searching for it.

    -Al
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