The Promised Land Movie Review 1995

Engrossing look at the migration of more than five million blacks from the rural south to the urban north of Chicago from the 1930s to the '70s. Includes archival footage and personal stories of segregation and sharecropping to northern ghettoization. Based on Nicholas Lehmann's 1991 book. Three-tape series available individually or as a boxed set.

Distribution

Discovery Home Entertainment, Discovery Channel Shopping, PO Box 788, Florence, KY 41022-0788, Toll-free: 800-889-9950, Fax: (606)342-0633, Email: via web site, URL: http://www.discovery.com

Available on VHS

Cast and Crew

Genres

Documentary Films, Black Culture, History--U.S.

Screenplay

Crystal Chappell

Director

Louis Febre, Mark Hayhurst

Other

Morgan Freeman

Producer

Anthony Geffen, Ray Davies, Discovery Productions, BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)