Soul of a People: Writing America's Story
Films
“Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives”
www.hbo.com/docs/programs/unchained_memories/
HBO project presenting dramatic selections from the extensive Slave Narrative Collection through on-camera readings by over a dozen actors, interspersed with archival photographs, music, film and period images. 75-minute DVD at http://store.hbo.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1888686&cp=1890186.
“Slavery and the Making of America”
www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/is a four-part PBS documentary about the history of American slavery from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction. Available in DVD or VHS at www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/about/buy.html.
Films based on works by FWP authors
- Nelson Algren. Man with the Golden Arm, A Walk on the Wild Side
- Saul Bellow. Seize the Day
- Arna Bontemps. Tuesday Morning Ride
- John Cheever. The Swimmer (starring Burt Lancaster), 3 by Cheever; The Swimmer (starring Alec Baldwin)
- Ralph Ellison. King of the Bingo Game; Ralph Ellison: An American Journey
Vardis Fisher. Jeremiah Johnson - Zora Neale Hurston. The Gilded Six Bits; Their Eyes Were Watching God (ABC, 2005)
- Weldon Kees. Approaches and Leavetakings; Hotel Apex
- Sam Ross. He Ran All the Way
- Studs Terkel. Working (the musical)
- Jim Thompson. The Grifters; Paths of Glory; The Killer Inside Me; The Getaway
- Margaret Walker. For My People: The Life & Writing of Margaret Walker
- Eudora Welty. The Ponder Heart (TV, 2001)
- Dorothy West. The Wedding (TV, 1998))
- Jessamyn West. Friendly Persuasion
- Richard Wright. Native Son
- Frank Yerby. The Foxes of Harrow; The Golden Hawk; The Saracen Blade; The Gambler
- Anzia Yezierska. Hungry Hearts; Salome of the Tenements
