D.A. Pennebaker

The Fight for Rights on The Streets of Greenwood

posted July 11, 2016

In their 1963 documentary The Streets of Greenwood, a group of young film-makers provided a close-up view of a Mississippi voter-registration drive, of citizens claiming their basic rights, and of a rally that lifted the spirits of harassed activists.

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Yale to Preserve Documentarian Nick Doob

posted May 24, 2016

Nick Doob has been in the forefront of American documentary-film making for decades, and now the films he made while a college student are being preserved by his alma mater, thanks to a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

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