The Road Taken
The Road Taken is a 1996 documentary about the experiences of Black Canadian sleeping-car porters who worked on Canada's railways from the early 1900s through the 1960s.[1]
Directed by Selwyn Jacob and written and narrated by Frederick Ward, the film explores how racism prevented Blacks from being promoted, until porter Lee Williams took his fight to the union in 1955 and successfully claimed discrimination under Canada's Fair Employment Practices Act.[2]
The film features the music of jazz musician Joe Sealy, whose father was a porter. Coproduced by Jacobs with the National Film Board of Canada, the film received the Canada Award in 1998 from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.[2]
See also
- Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle, a documentary film about African American railway porters
References
External links
- Watch The Road Taken at NFB.ca
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The Road Taken at IMDb
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- 1996 films
- Canadian films
- English-language films
- Black Canadian films
- National Film Board of Canada documentaries
- Documentary films about racism in Canada
- Canada Award-winning programs
- Documentary films about rail transport
- Documentary films about the labor movement
- Anti-black racism
- 1990s Canadian film stubs
- Historical documentary film stubs