Check out our companion livestreamed event with non-profit media collective Unicorn Riot for a discussion of the role of alternative media in political journalism. Stream for free here on or after November 12 at 6pm. Co-presented by the SNF Parkway, Film & Media MA Program of Johns Hopkins University, and the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund.
Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926–2014) was also the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture. Nationtime is a report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered black voices from across the political spectrum, among them Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, Richard Hatcher, Amiri Baraka, Charles Diggs, and H. Carl McCall. Narrated by Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, the film was considered too militant for television broadcast at the time and has since circulated only in an edited 58-minute version. This new 4K restoration from IndieCollect, with funding from Jane Fonda and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, returns the film to its original 80-minute length and visual quality.
- Year1972
- Runtime80 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorWilliam Greaves
- CastAmiri Baraka, Coretta Scott King, Dr. Betty Shabazz, Bobby Seale, Issac Hayes, Dick Gregory, Richard Roundtree
Check out our companion livestreamed event with non-profit media collective Unicorn Riot for a discussion of the role of alternative media in political journalism. Stream for free here on or after November 12 at 6pm. Co-presented by the SNF Parkway, Film & Media MA Program of Johns Hopkins University, and the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund.
Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926–2014) was also the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture. Nationtime is a report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered black voices from across the political spectrum, among them Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, Richard Hatcher, Amiri Baraka, Charles Diggs, and H. Carl McCall. Narrated by Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, the film was considered too militant for television broadcast at the time and has since circulated only in an edited 58-minute version. This new 4K restoration from IndieCollect, with funding from Jane Fonda and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, returns the film to its original 80-minute length and visual quality.
- Year1972
- Runtime80 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorWilliam Greaves
- CastAmiri Baraka, Coretta Scott King, Dr. Betty Shabazz, Bobby Seale, Issac Hayes, Dick Gregory, Richard Roundtree