August Wilson : The Ground on Which I Stand / PBS.

[Place of publication not identified] : PBS, [2015]

New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2017.

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Explore the life and legacy of August Wilson, the playwright some call America's Shakespeare, who chronicled the 20th-century black experience. Features James Earl Jones, Phylicia Rashad, Laurence Fishburne, Viola Davis, new dramatic readings and rare footage.

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May 20, 2019

9 - 12, Academic/AP

Acclaimed Playwright (4:08); Wilson's Background (3:46); Wilson's Education (2:33); Community Life and Raising Consciousness (3:31); Wilson's Artistic Evolution (3:18); "Jitney" (2:43); National Playwrights Conference (4:20); "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (3:29); Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Success (2:53); "Fences" (4:37); "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" (5:05); "The Piano Lesson" (4:52); Living with a Playwright (3:23); "Two Trains Running" (2:52); Director Lloyd Richards (2:40); Professional Bonds Break (2:47); Women in Wilson's Plays (4:58); Wilson's Speech (4:06); Revival of "Jitney" (3:54); "Gem of the Ocean" (4:57); Wilson's Illness (3:55); Wilson's Death (4:26); Credits: August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand (1:22);

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