Eyes on the Prize was a great educational documentary. The episode we saw in class had great transition from one topic to the next. The interviewees, what ever they were saying, some how inter connected witht the flow of the story. The use of words wasn't often off and pointless considering what we were watching. It also never bored you with only having to watch different people talk, it had a lot of old footage, and you can see the hard work and time that must have been put into it.
The relavance of this series will last for ever, as long as there isn't another series that better completes its task. 20, 30 years from now, as people tend to forget more and more the past, a documentary, like this one, that covers so much in one package will become easy and accesable to any one trying to learn history. In fact, the relavance of this film may increase as the years go by.
I only wish they were easier to come by, and all together. If you go to a store and try to get the series, they may only have a few episodes.
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I too, thought Eyes on the Prize was a wonderful way in which to put together documentaries that portrayed important points in our nation's past. Each was pinpointed and exact, giving a great amount of information through many types of media; this way, I think, helped in breaking up the monotony of just having interviews or a monotone voice over some pictures or actuality footage. And then all of the individual films could be looked at as a whole to describe a particularly exciting period in history when ideas, opinions, and words were being thrown around, and considered.
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