FORT GREENE — The Brooklyn Academy of Music is marking the 50th anniversary of the legendary March on Washington by presenting 40 civil rights-related films over the course of two weeks.
The film series, “A Time for Burning: Cinema of the Civil Rights Movement,” will run from Aug. 13 to 28 and celebrate the historic march at which Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream Speech" from the Lincoln Memorial.
The films in BAM's series are mostly documentaries — for example, a recently restored three-hour biopic about King — but classics such as “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “A Raisin in the Sun” will also be shown.
Other films are noteworthy for their historic roles in increasing diversity on the big screen: “The Learning Tree” was the first Hollywood studio film with a black director; “Odds Against Tomorrow” was the first film noir with a black protagonist; and “The Best of Black Journal” highlights how the pioneering news show “Black Journal” first gave voice to black journalists, according to BAM.
To see the full list of films and to reserve tickets, check out the BAMcinématek website.
