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Originally produced as a episode of the PBS television series American masters in 2017; per Internet movie database, first broadcast January 19, 2018 as episode 1 of season 32. Narrator, LaTanya Richardson Jackson ; Lorraine Hansberry voiceover, Anika Noni Rose ; Alexandria King (as Lorraine Hansberry). Interviewees: Michael Anderson, Ann Bannon, Amiri Baraka, Harry Belafonte, Timuel Black, William Branch, Dorothy Burnham, Steven Carter, Charles Davis, Ruby Dee, Burt D'Lugoff, Harry Elam, Louis Gossett, Jr., Mamie Hansberry, Clarence Jones, Lynn Nottage, Imani Perry, Shauneille Perry, Sidney Poiter, Lloyd Richards, Philip Rose, Marie Rupert, Joan Sandler, Judith Smith, Glynn Turman, Douglas Turner Ward, Mary Helen Washington, Margaret Wilkerson, Edie Windsor. Major funding provided by National Endowment for the Humanities, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Ford Foundation/JustFilms, National Endowment for the Arts, The Film Posse, American Masters Pictures, LEF Foundation, Peter G. Peterson & Joan Ganz Cooney Fund, Illinois Humanities. DVD, NTSC; stereo or Dolby 5.1 surround sound. "The first-ever feature documentary about Lorraine Hansberry, the visionary playwright who authored the groundbreaking A Raisin in the Sun. An overnight sensation, the play transformed the American theater and has long been considered a classic, yet the remarkable story of the playwright faded from view. With this documentary, filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain resurrects the Lorraine Hansberry we have forgotten--a passionate artist, committed activist and sought-after public intellectual who waged an outspoken and defiant battle against injustice in 20th-century America. The film reveals Hansberry's prescient works tackling race, human rights, women's equality and sexuality that anticipated social and political movements on the horizon"-- Lorraine Hansberry Documentary Project WWW site. 1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in