Eyes on the Prize The Promised Land: 1967-1968 (Season 2, Episode 4)
TV-PG
TV Episode | 58 min | Documentary, History

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Eyes on the Prize

The Promised Land: 1967-1968 (Season 2, Episode 4)

TV-PG

TV Episode | 58 min | Documentary, History

Martin Luther King, Jr. stakes out new ground for himself and the rapidly fragmenting civil rights movement. He is assassinated in Memphis at the Lorraine Motel.

Directors

Jacqueline Shearer | Paul Stekler

Writers

Steve Fayer | Henry Hampton (creator) | Jacqueline Shearer | Paul Stekler

Producers

Jacqueline Shearer | Paul Stekler

Cinematographers

Michael Chin | Robert Shepard

Editor

Lillian Benson

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Edit Released

Updated Feb 5, 1990

Release date

Feb 5, 1990 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

Nominated for 1 Oscar Award. Another 11 wins & 4 nominations

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30 cast members

Name	Known for
Martin Luther King Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Freedom Writers (2007)
Juanita Abernathy Self Self See fewer	Pilgrimage: John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement (2021)
Ralph Abernathy Self Self See fewer	I Am Somebody (1970)
Harry Belafonte Self Self See fewer	Bobby (I) (2006)
Jerred Blanchard Self Self See fewer	Eyes on the Prize (1987)
Julian Bond Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	Greased Lightning (1977)
Edward Brooke Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Bicentennial Minutes (1974)
H. Rap Brown Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Fall (1969)
Stokely Carmichael Self (as Kwame Ture) Self (as Kwame Ture) See fewer	The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)
James Figgs Self Self See fewer	Eyes on the Prize (1987)
Barry Goldwater Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Laugh-In (1977)
Michael Harrington Self Self See fewer	Economics U$A (1985)
Jesse Jackson Self Self See fewer	The Burning
Lyndon B. Johnson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Spartamerika
Robert F. Kennedy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Missiles of October (1974)
Coretta Scott King Self Self See fewer	I Am Somebody (1970)
James Lawson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984)
Henry Loeb Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Great Performances (1971)
Marian Logan Self Self See fewer	Adam Clayton Powell (1989)
William Lucy Self Self See fewer	Eyes on the Prize (1987)
Eugene McCarthy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Harry McPherson Self Self See fewer	Vietnam: A Television History (1983)
Taylor Rodgers Self Self See fewer	Eyes on the Prize (1987)
William Rutherford Self Self See fewer	Eyes on the Prize (1987)
Daniel Schorr Self Self See fewer	The Game (1997)
James Smith Self (as Rev. James Smith) Self (as Rev. James Smith) See fewer	Eyes on the Prize (1987)
George Wallace Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963)
Hosea Williams Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982)
Marian Wright Edelman Self Self See fewer	Life on Earth: A True Civilisation (1996)
Andrew Young Self Self See fewer	Fandango at the Wall (2020)