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Freedom Riders

Documentary and Nonfiction Film

Freedom Riders is a 2010 American historical documentary produced for the PBS series American Experience, chronicling the civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated South in 1961 to challenge segregation in interstate transportation. Directed by Stanley Nelson Jr. and based on historian Raymond Arsenault's book of the same name, the film was produced by Firelight Media and premiered to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the first Freedom Ride, airing on PBS on May 16, 2011 after funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2020. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Original Language
English 1
Award
National Film Registry 2
Release Year
2010 1
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English

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United States

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1. Freedom Riders (film) (Wikipedia)
  • Freedom Riders (film), Introduction section
    Freedom Riders is a 2010 American historical documentary film, produced by Firelight Media for the twenty-third season of American Experience on PBS.
  • Freedom Riders, Description, original language
    Freedom Riders is a 2010 American historical documentary produced for the PBS series American Experience, chronicling the civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated South in 1961 to challenge segregation in interstate transportation.
  • Article lead sentence
    Freedom Riders is a 2010 American historical documentary film, produced by Firelight Media for the twenty-third season of American Experience on PBS.
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2. Library of Congress, National Film Preservation Board: Complete National Film Registry Listing
Library of Congress, National Film Preservation BoardNational Film Registry listing row: film released 2010, inducted 2020
Quote, National Film Registry listing row: film released 2010, inducted 2020
Freedom Riders 2010 2020
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