• The March
  • The March
  • The March
  • The Bus
  • The Bus

The March

Free Admission

To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which demanded equal rights for African Americans, we present James Blue’s powerful film documenting participants as they traveled from various cities to Washington, DC. Once there, marching with over 200,000 others, they witnessed Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. present “I Have a Dream,” one of the defining speeches in the civil rights movement. Edward R. Murrow called The March “the finest argument for peaceful petition of redress of grievance that has ever been put on film.” It was placed on the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2008 and was restored in 2013. For further information, see “James Blue’s Documentary of the August 28, 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.”

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 30 mins
Source
  • James Blue Project
Preceded By

The Bus

Haskell Wexler, United States, 1965

A lifelong activist, Haskell Wexler traveled on a bus trip organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from San Francisco to Washington, DC, recording charged conversations and small moments on the trip and at the 1963 March on Washington. Made with Nell Cox and Mike Butler.

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 62 mins
source
  • UCLA Film & Television Archive
Additional Info
  • Restoration funding provided by the National Film Preservation Foundation

Event Accessibility

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