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The March (1964 film)

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The March
Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech has been redacted from this video because of the copyright held by King's estate.
Directed byJames Blue
Distributed byU.S. Information Agency
Release dates
  • 1964 (1964) (non-U.S.)
  • 1990 (1990) (U.S.)
Running time
33 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
External audio
audio icon I Have a Dream, 28 August 1963, Educational Radio Network[1]

The March, also known as The March to Washington,[2] is a 1964 documentary film by James Blue about the 1963 civil rights March on Washington. It was made for the Motion Picture Service unit of the United States Information Agency for use outside the United States – the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act prevented USIA films from being shown domestically without a special act of Congress. In 1990 Congress authorized these films to be shown in the U.S. twelve years after their initial release.

In 2008, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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Notes

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  1. ^ "Special Collections, March on Washington, Part 17". Open Vault. at WGBH. 28 August 1963. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Burchfield-Penney and Hallwalls Present The Work of James Blue: A Retrospective". Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 31 December 2008.
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