According to a Deadline article HBO has released the trailer for the documentary series titled ‘Eyes On The Prize lll’. The series that has been “the standard for cinematic exploration” says Deadline is a documentary exploring the Black experience in America during the times of the civil rights movement. Deadline says that the series is broken up into six parts and has some of the most notable and country’s top filmmakers on the project.
Per Deadline the docuseries is inspired by the creator of the first series Henry Hampton who created ‘Eyes On The Prize: America’s Civil Rights Movement’ in 1987. Although the old series premiered in the late 80s, the new series will cover the late 1970’s to 2015. It covers some of the great activits within each time frame, dissecting their work and fight for racial equality.
According to a synopsis given by Deadline, the docuseries will be “Presenting contemporary history in context with archival footage and intimate interviews with those who personally participated in collective movements, the series is a wide-ranging meditation about the ongoing struggle for freedom, racial justice, and equity in the years since the civil rights movement, reflecting untold stories of the people and communities fighting for a better future in a changing America.”
According to Deadline, Dawn Porter (Luther: Never Too Much, The Lady Bird Diaries) is the executive producer over the project and there will be directors who will oversee single episodes such as Geeta Gandbhir (I Am Evidence), Samantha Knowles (Harlem Ice, How We Get Free), Muta’Ali Muhammad (Turtle vs. Octopus), Rudy Valdez (The Sentence, Carlos), Smriti Mundhra (I Am Ready Warden, A Suitable Girl), and Asako Gladsjo (The Calling, (Un) well).
The first episode will air on HBO on February 25, 2025, and will have guests such as community activists Robert Foster, Carol Waring, Leon Potts, Allen Pierce, and Harry DeRienzo; former Bronx borough president Fernando Ferrer; former commissioner of public health Estelle Richman; AIDS activist and Bebashi founder Rashidah Abdul-Khabeer; AIDS activists Tyrone Smith, David Fair, and Michael Hinson; and former mayor of Philadelphia W. Wilson Goode.
