Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise About the Film American Masters. First feature documentary on the author/activist includes exclusive interviews with Dr.

Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, Common, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and others. Distinctly referred to as “a redwood tree, with deep roots in American culture,” Dr. Maya Angelou (April 4, 1. May 2. 8, 2. 01. 4) led a prolific life.

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As a singer, dancer, activist, poet and writer, she inspired generations with lyrical modern African- American thought that pushed boundaries. Best known for her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Random House), she gave people the freedom to think about their history in a way they never had before. With unprecedented access, filmmakers Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack trace Dr. Angelou’s incredible journey, shedding light on the untold aspects of her life through never- before- seen footage, rare archival photographs and videos and her own words. From her upbringing in the Depression- era South and her early performing career (1. Miss Calypso album and Calypso Heat Wave film, Jean Genet’s 1.

The Blacks) to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana and her many writing successes, including her inaugural poem for President Bill Clinton, American Masters – Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise reveals hidden facets of her life during some of America’s most defining moments. The film also features exclusive interviews with Dr. Angelou, her friends and family, including Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Common, Alfre Woodard, Cicely Tyson, Quincy Jones, Hillary Clinton, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Singleton, Diahann Carroll, Valerie Simpson, Random House editor Bob Loomis and Dr. Angelou’s son, Guy Johnson.“It was a unique privilege to be the first filmmakers to tell Dr.

Angelou’s full story and exciting to uncover stories that most people hadn’t heard,” said co- director and co- producer Bob Hercules (American Masters – Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance, American Masters – Bill T. Jones: A Good Man, Forgiving Dr. Mengele).“The film reflects on how the events of history, culture and the arts shaped Dr. Angelou’s life, and how she, in turn, helped shape our own worldview through her autobiographical literature and activism,” said co- director and co- producer Rita Coburn Whack (Curators of Culture, Remembering 4. Street, African Roots American Soil).“It is bittersweet that Dr. Angelou takes her rightful place in the American Masters series posthumously,” said executive producer Michael Kantor.

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We are fortunate that Bob and Rita captured these insightful interviews with her just prior to her death so we can all learn from her wisdom firsthand.”Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise premiered to critical acclaim at the 2. Sundance Film Festival. It won the Audience Award at AFI Docs and was featured at notable film festivals worldwide, including Full Frame, Sheffield, IDFA and Seattle, winning 1. NAACP Image Award. Launched in 1. 98. American Masters has earned 2.

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Emmy Awards — including 1. Outstanding Non- Fiction Series and five for Outstanding Non- Fiction Special — 1. Peabodys, an Oscar, three Grammys, two Producers Guild Awards and many other honors.

The series’ 3. 1st season on PBS features new documentaries about Patsy Cline (March), Chef James Beard (May 1. Chef. Jacques Pépin (May 2. To further explore the lives and works of masters past and present, the American Masters website (http: //pbs.

In Their Own Words: The American Masters Digital Archive: previously unreleased interviews of luminaries discussing America’s most enduring artistic and cultural giants as well as the American Masters Podcast. The series is a production of THIRTEEN PRODUCTIONS LLC for WNET and also seen on the WORLD channel.

American Masters – Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise is a co- production of The People’s Poet Media Group, LLC, THIRTEEN’s American Masters for WNET, and ITVS in association with Artemis Rising. Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack are directors. David E. Simpson and Lillian E. Benson are editors.

Keith Walker is director of photography, with original music by Stephen James Taylor. Rita Coburn Whack, Bob Hercules, Jay Alix and Una Jackman are producers. Reuben Cannon, Marquetta Glass, Steve Sarowitz, Michael Kantor, Regina Scully, Chris Gardner, Raymond Lambert, Susan Lacy and Sally Jo Fifer are executive producers. Michael Kantor is American Masters series executive producer. Funding for Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise is provided by IDP Foundation, Ford Foundation/Just Films, National Endowment for the Arts, National Black Programming Consortium, Anne Ulnick, Michael Metelits, and Loida and Leslie Lewis. Major support for American Masters is provided by AARP. Additional funding is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Rosalind P.

Walter, The Philip and Janice Levin Foundation, Judith and Burton Resnick, Ellen and James S. Marcus, Vital Projects Fund, Lillian Goldman Programming Endowment, The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation, Cheryl and Philip Milstein Family, The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation, Michael & Helen Schaffer Foundation and public television viewers.

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PBS Airdate: January 5, 2. NARRATOR: An expedition is underway, and it may rewrite the. Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a day that forever lives in. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT (President. United States, 1.

Radio Address): .. December 7th, 1. 94. United States of America. JOHN CHATTERTON (Wreck. Diving Expert): This is the. United States was drawn into World War II. You would. think that we would know just about everything about this attack.

We don't. NARRATOR: Most people think of the surprise attack on Pearl. Harbor as an aerial assault raining down from the sky. But now the mysterious. Japanese submarine, missing for almost 7. Pearl Harbor. Could the attack have also come from.

LORI JOHNSTON (Microbial. Ecologist): It's my conclusion. PARKS STEPHENSON (Marine. Forensic Historian: It's almost.

C. S. I. situation, when you have a crime scene. Watch Two-Lane Blacktop Online Two-Lane Blacktop Full Movie Online. NARRATOR: Can forensic science unlock the secrets of the. Pearl Harbor? DANIEL MARTINEZ (Historian.

National Parks Service): Pearl. Harbor is wrapped in enigma and mystery, and somewhere is the truth. NARRATOR: Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor. NOVA. NARRATOR: Oahu: One of the Hawaiian Islands; a vacation. Pacific; spectacular vistas, tropical beaches and vivid. For a few hours, early on December 7th, 1. The sky, that Sunday morning, blazed in the.

Japanese aircraft bombing. American Pacific Fleet berthed in Pearl Harbor; dive- bombers. The surprise attack shook not only the entire. Over 2,4. 00. Americans lost their lives in the battle. Almost half of them died on just one. U. S. S. Arizona.

It remains under the sea, a powerful symbol of a. Pleasantville Full Movie. Today a monument is built on top of the wreck. Over a million people visit each year and pay their respects to the 1,1.

Arizona below, a sunken. Don Stratton was on the Arizona, directing. DONALD G. STRATTON (U. S. S. Arizona Survivor): My hair was.

I lost part of my nose, part of my ear; my back was burnt; both my. It was just a hell of a day, but I don't talk about it that.

I've got to say about that. NARRATOR: But there was another part of the Japanese. AKIRA IRIYE (Harvard.

University): .. popular perception. Pearl Harbor attack was primarily an aerial attack, coming from the. EDWARD T. O'DONNELL. College of the Holy Cross): It's. Pearl Harbor really. Killing Ground Full Movie Part 1. It also tells us a lot about.

Japanese expectations that they really wanted to completely cripple the. Pacific Fleet. NARRATOR: Compelling evidence now suggests that Pearl. Harbor was attacked not only from above, but below. Hours before Japanese aircraft carriers launched. Oahu, a secret weapon was already. According to military records, shortly after.

Japanese submarines slipped undetected to within just a few. Pearl Harbor,each one carrying a technological marvel on its. The five Type A midget submarines were about a. Just six feet wide and packed with. A 6. 00- horsepower electric motor propelled the. World. War II submarines.

The midget subs could not only take the enemy by surprise. The bow of a midget sub on display at the Naval. Academy in Japan shows how. COMMANDER MASANORI ANDOU (Japan Maritime Self- Defense Force): It carried two Type 9. Long Lance. torpedoes, specially made for this midget sub. NARRATOR: Just one of these modified Long Lance torpedoes.

The Japanese built hundreds of midget submarines. World War II and deployed them all across the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor would be the. Author Burl Burlingame has investigated their.

BURL BURLINGAME. (Author, Advance Force- Pearl Harbor): The midget submarines were supposed to get in the. American ships, attacking them from the bottom as well as. NARRATOR: But how well did the plan succeed? We know that four of the five midget subs.

BURL BURLINGAME: One. It did not fire its torpedoes. NARRATOR: Midget sub number 1 was shelled by the U.

S. S. Ward, over an hour before the Japanese warplanes attacked. It remains where it sank, just outside the. Midget. sub number 2 entered Pearl Harbor, but after missing its target with both. American ships. It was raised two.

Two down, and another two would never make it. Midget sub number 3 ran aground on the east side. Oahu, and its captain became the first Japanese. Neither of its torpedoes had been fired. It is now on display at the National Museum of.

Pacific War, in Texas. The fourth midget sub turned up years later. Pearl Harbor. BURL BURLINGAME: Another.

Keehi Lagoon, and it still had its. That midget submarine was shipped back to Japan. NARRATOR: It now stands outside the Naval Academy in.

Etajima. EDWARD O'DONNELL: It's. NARRATOR: What about number 5, the last of the midget subs? PARKS STEPHENSON: The.

Historians differed on what it could have done, or. NARRATOR: We know that midget sub number 5 began its. Kure, Japan. Petty Officer Kichiji Dewa was aboard its mother sub. Dewa recorded his thoughts in a secret. KICHIJI DEWA (Imperial.

Japanese Navy, Retired): After. X Day has come. The crew were dressed in clean clothes. NARRATOR: During the war, the Japanese were told that the. BURL BURLINGAME: The. Japanese midget submariners became the heroes of the attack, in Japan.

They. were given credit for sinking the U. S. S. Arizona. NARRATOR: Did midget sub number 5 sink the Arizona or any. American battleship that day in Pearl Harbor? DANIEL MARTINEZ: I.

NARRATOR: Now, after almost 7. Pearl Harbor finally revealed. Terry. Kerby is a submersible pilot who has been exploring the ocean floor around the. Hawaiian Islands for years. The area just outside of Pearl Harbor is an. World War II debris.

TERRY KERBY (Director. Operations, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Hawaii Undersea Research.

Lab): We found wrecks of. NARRATOR: During a routine test dive, three miles south of. Pearl Harbor, Terry spotted something unusual.

TERRY KERBY: That's definitely a conning tower sticking up. NARRATOR: It was a long tube of steel, and to an expert eye. Japanese midget sub. Terry. eventually found two more sections spread out across the ocean floor. But are. all three pieces from the same submarine? And if so, is it the wreck of midget. December 7th, 1. 94.

NOVA has assembled a unique team of investigators. They come from both sides of the battle: America and Japan. Leading the investigation is marine forensic. Parks Stephenson, a former U. S. Navy officer and submariner. PARKS STEPHENSON: Today's. After months of study, we are actually going down to the wreck of the.

Japanese midget subs that participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor.