The March in Washington (Short 1963)
We Have A Dream (2016) features footage filmed by (for) the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the United States Information Agency (USIA), and used by NARA to produce the documentary film entitled The March in Washington (1963), later distributed both by NARA and the USIA. Historically, the information gathered by the U.S. Government during the March on Washington lent to then F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover's justification of his request to then U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy for authorization to begin full electronic surveillance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "In the light of King's powerful demagogic speech...We must mark him now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation...," wrote top Hoover aide, William Sullivan.Israel: The Story of the Jewish People (Short 1965)
Particularly known for his films and photographs capturing World War II Germany and Poland, Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker, photographer, and historian Julien Bryan's original Israel: The Story of the Jewish People (1965) is "one of the first American film introductions to Israel" (International Film Foundation (IFF)). Revised in 1979 by his son, Sam Bryan, this original 1965 work also inspired several other films about Israel personally crafted by Julien Bryan and the IFF, including Children of Israel (1967), the footage for which was filmed at the same time as the footage featured in the original 1965 work. In the second half of We Have A Dream (2015), Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham features film footage shot and edited for both the original and revised Bryan Israel films, also produced by (for) the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the United States International Development Cooperation Agency (USIDCA), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).Israel: The Story of the Jewish People (Short 1979)
In 1979, Sam Bryan revised a classic animated and documentary film chronicling the creation and formation of the modern-day State of Israel produced and directed by his father, Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker, photographer, and historian Julien Bryan (Siege, RKO-Pathé Pictures, 1940), particularly known for his films and photographs capturing World War II Germany and Poland. Continuing on from where his father left off in 1948, Sam Bryan brings the story of Israel into his present, at that time, the late 1970's, under the auspices of the International Film Foundation (IFF), also founded by his (then late) father. In the second half of We Have A Dream (2015), Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham features film footage shot and edited for both the original and revised Bryan Israel films, also produced by (for) the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the United States International Development Cooperation Agency (USIDCA), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
- The contribution of leaders within the Jewish community, and particularly Rabbinical leaders within the Jewish community, to the historic March on Washington had sadly largely been lost to history in recent decades, for various reasons. The documentary film Joachim Prinz: I Shall Not Be Silent (2013) is among those works recently seeking to revive and preserve this history, documenting the contribution of not only Rabbi Joachim Prinz, but also of others such as Rabbi Uri Miller and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, including the March on Washington. Like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rabbi Joachim Prinz was targeted and blacklisted as a result of his activism in resistance to the Nazi Regime in Germany and during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. "When I was the Rabbi of the Jewish community in Berlin under the Hitler regime," said Prinz during his speech delivered at the March on Washington, "I learned many things. The most important thing that I learned under those tragic circumstances was that bigotry and hatred are not 'the most urgent problem'. The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most shameful and the most tragic problem is silence."
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