documentary "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson"
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"Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson" is a Ken Burns documentary film chronicling the life, boxing career, and racial struggles of early 20th-century heavyweight champion Jack Johnson.
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| documentary "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson" canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: documentary "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson" Context triple: [Jack Johnson, subjectOf, documentary "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson"]
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: documentary "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson" Target entity description: "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson" is a Ken Burns documentary film chronicling the life, boxing career, and racial struggles of early 20th-century heavyweight champion Jack Johnson.
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A.
documentary "Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin"
"Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin" is a documentary film that chronicles the life and activism of Bayard Rustin, a key but long-overlooked strategist of the U.S. civil rights movement and advisor to Martin Luther King Jr.
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B.
O.J.: Made in America
O.J.: Made in America is a critically acclaimed 2016 documentary miniseries that explores O.J. Simpson’s life, career, and infamous murder trial within the broader context of race, celebrity, and the American justice system.
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C.
documentary film "Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami"
"Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami" is a documentary film that offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes portrait of iconic singer, model, and performer Grace Jones, blending concert footage with glimpses into her personal life and creative process.
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D.
documentary film "Standing in the Shadows of Motown"
"Standing in the Shadows of Motown" is a documentary film that celebrates and uncovers the story of the Funk Brothers, the largely uncredited studio musicians behind many of Motown Records’ greatest hits.
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E.
The Documentary
The Documentary is the debut studio album by American rapper The Game, widely regarded as a landmark West Coast hip-hop release of the mid-2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
documentary film
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television documentary ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Special
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming ⓘ |
| basedOn | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (book) ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Geoffrey C. Ward ⓘ |
| cinematography | Buddy Squires ⓘ |
| composer | Wynton Marsalis ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| depicts |
Jack Johnson's boxing career
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Jack Johnson's personal life ⓘ racial tensions in early 20th-century America ⓘ |
| director | Ken Burns ⓘ |
| distributor | PBS ⓘ |
| editor |
Paul Barnes
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Tricia Reidy ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
Jim Crow era segregation
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celebrity and scandal ⓘ race and sports ⓘ |
| featuresVoice |
Alan Rickman
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Billy Bob Thornton ⓘ Harvey Keitel ⓘ Samuel L. Jackson ⓘ |
| firstBroadcastOn | PBS ⓘ |
| focusesOnPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical documentary
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sports documentary ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
home video release
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television miniseries ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
African-American history
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boxing ⓘ racial discrimination in the United States ⓘ |
| narrator | Keith David ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 2 ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | PBS ⓘ |
| partOf | Ken Burns filmography ⓘ |
| portraysEvent |
Jack Johnson becoming world heavyweight boxing champion
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legal persecution of Jack Johnson under the Mann Act ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Florentine Films ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2004 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 220 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Geoffrey C. Ward ⓘ |
| subject | Jack Johnson ⓘ |
| titleReferences | perceived "unforgivable" nature of Black success in racist society ⓘ |
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Subject: documentary "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson" Description of subject: "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson" is a Ken Burns documentary film chronicling the life, boxing career, and racial struggles of early 20th-century heavyweight champion Jack Johnson.
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documentary "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson"
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