Media Edge

"Media as Storytellers" (7.5 minutes)
George Gerbner explores the significance of commercial media eclipsing religion and art as the great storyteller of our time.

"The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation" (1 hour, 48 minutes)
The gripping story of Robert King, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, men who have endured solitary confinement longer than any known living prisoner in the United States. Politicized through contact with the Black Panther Party while inside Louisiana’s prisons, they formed one of the only prison Panther chapters in history and worked to organize other prisoners into a movement for the right to live like human beings. This feature length movie explores their extraordinary struggle for justice while incarcerated in Angola, a former slave
plantation.

Details
Episode Number: 
446
Duration: 
1 hour 59 min
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Category: 
486
Disposition: 
DCTV Digital Library
Format: 
1116