The BEST episodes directed by Orlando Bagwell
#1 - Citizen King
American Experience - Season 16 - Episode 4
Contemporaries of Martin Luther King reflect on the later years of his life.
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American Experience - Season 19 - Episode 5
Mississippi's grass-roots civil rights movement becomes an American concern when college students travel south to help register black voters and three activists are murdered. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenges the regular Mississippi delegation at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City.
#3 - Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad
American Experience - Season 2 - Episode 15
A chronicle of the organized efforts to help slaves find freedom in the north.
#4 - Malcolm X: Make It Plain
American Experience - Season 6 - Episode 7
Story of the controversial Malcolm X, his early years, his connection to the Nation of Islam, and his legacy.
#5 - Eyes on the Prize (3): Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961)
American Experience - Season 19 - Episode 3
Black college students take a leadership role in the civil rights movement as lunch counter sit-ins spread across the South. "Freedom Riders" also try to desegregate interstate buses, but they are brutally attacked as they travel.