Twenty years after Johnson lost the heavyweight title to ... the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1970, a film adaptation directed by Martin Ritt resulted in Academy ...

back in 1970 when the jazz legend Miles Davis recorded music for the documentary Jack Johnson by filmmaker and fight promoter William Cayton (later famous for managing a young Mike Tyson). Both films ...

The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, a provocative new PBS documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns. The two-part film shows the gritty details of Johnson's life through archival footage ...

Alexander and Jones in a publicity still from the 1970 film Photo by Afro ... story he found while making the documentary, “What's so important about Jack Johnson is that he defies all ...

A film version with Jones was released in 1970. More recently, the documentary "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson," directed by Ken Burns, was aired on PBS in 2004.

In 1970, Davis was asked by boxing manager and impresario Bill Cayton if he wanted to score a documentary about boxer Jack Johnson. A kind of sorcerer in his own right, Johnson was more than the ...

According to filmmaker Ken Burns, who made the PBS documentary “Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise & Fall of Jack Johnson,” he became ... May 30, 1970: Looking back on Al Kaline’s brush ...

In the spring of 1970, Miles Davis was fresh off ... and when he set out to create the soundtrack to an obscure documentary on boxing icon Jack Johnson, it turned out he had many more ideas ...

Flamboyant, buoyant Jack Johnson had only one generic attribute ... Great White Hope'' and then starred in the same-named 1970 feature film. Burns clearly admires his subject but doesn't fall ...