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The Colfax Massacre
The Colfax Massacre
A Feature Documentary
On Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873, more than one hundred Black men in Colfax, Louisiana set about defending their newly acquired right to vote. Their opponents, determined to end any hope of Black equality, were far better armed and trained, many of them Confederate veterans. Against these odds, the Black men had little chance. By the end of the day, more than sixty had been murdered in cold blood. The Colfax Massacre has had enormous repercussions in American history. It led to the Supreme Court decision, U.S. v Cruikshank, that eviscerated the 14th amendment and triggered white supremacist violence across the South. It undermined Reconstruction, destroyed the Black vote and led the way for Jim Crow segregation for nearly a century. The Colfax Massacre, a feature documentary will tell the story through the descendants of the victims, and the actual court testimony of the Black men who survived brought to life with stunning original animation.
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MOYNIHAN is on
American Masters on PBS.com
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) did not just live in the twentieth century, he strode across it: a colossus of ideas and a man of deeds. He was a seminal public intellectual and sociologist, policy specialist, ambassador and long serving senator. Moynihan was a moralist in a political world where morality – the urge to do good – is often overcome by the desire to do well. He had, as one friend, recalled, a “ mystical belief in public service.” In an age of rigid ideologies and political sloganeering, he was a man who embraced the contradictions and complexity of public policy without ever despairing of the role of government in the lives of its citizens. A decade after his death The Moynihan Documentary Project, the first feature length documentary about his life, captures Moynihan, the man, the thinker and the doer as never before.
Currently on PBS digital
and Amazon Prime!
Don Quixote in Newark
A first feature length documentary about Dr. James Oleske, the remarkable doctor who first discovered AIDS in children in the early 1980s and led the initial battle against childhood AIDS nationally and internationally. Brilliant doctor, social crusader, medical rebel and caring physician, Oleske is a man with lessons to teach about our present pandemic and the treatment of individuals in need.
ABOUT RIVERSIDE FILMS
Riverside Films was founded by Joseph Dorman. His latest film, Don Quixote in Newark tells the the story of the singular doctor who discovered AIDS in children in the early 1980s and led the battle against it, ultimately helping end the pandemic. MOYNIHAN, premiering on American Masters on PBS in 2023 tells the story of the brilliant statesman and senator, Daniel Patrick Moynihan. His previous films include Colliding Dreams on the controversial history of Zionist described by the Los Angeles Times as “Compelling and Engrossing… a film of ideas, a film of history” and Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness named one of the 2011’s highest grossing documentaries. The New York Times called it “a rich modern history of Eastern European Jewry.”
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Mr. Dorman also wrote and directed the Peabody Award-winning documentary, Arguing the World, about eminent political writers and thinkers, Daniel Bell, Irving Howe, Irving Kristol and Nathan Glazer. It was named one of the best films of 1998 by The New York Times and New York Magazine. In addition, he wrote the scripts for the films, The Endurance, Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Adventure and Going Upriver, The Private War of John Kerry.
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