Booker

Great movie for educational purposes. If you are real sensitive to real history (the good, the bad, and the way things happened (unfortunately)) then skip this movie. I actually owned it on VHS and repurchased to have on DVD. I like it because it demonstrates victory in and through circumstances of adversity using perseverance, hard work and right choices even when it seemed hard to do so.

I seen this film years years ago, about Booker T. Washington. It was just short.

I ordered this video because my grandparents are extras in The movie

Wonderful for 3rd graders to help them understand how it was for Booker to grow up at that time.

The video is in black & White

great

Basic Nowledge. It too k a long time to reach uk from usa

BOOKER (1989)directed by Stan Lathanapprox. 55 minutesThis is a very well done made-for-tv movie based on the early life of black educator Booker T. Washington, author of ' Up from Slavery '.It starts out with young Booker living as a slave in Virginia. He wants to go to school with a white friend of his but is told he's not allowed to learn. Once The Union army arrives at the farm, he leaves with his family to live with his stepdad in West Virginia. Here he meets a black war veteran named Mr. Davis (played by Levar Burton of 'Star Trek' and 'Reading Rainbow' fame). Seeing Mr. Davis read a newsletter renews Booker's interest in getting an education for himself. However the family is short on money and his stepfather believes that Booker working at a furnace will better serve the family. Booker persists and is given a  Blue Back speller  book in order to learn letters and syllables. His stepdad realizes the "value" of education when his young son, using simple addition, finds out that the boss at the furnace hasn't been giving the family their promised wages. Booker secures a job with a former schoolteacher where he has access to a large library to feed his enthusiasm for education.This movie also picks up on some aspects that are non-specific to Booker's story, such as the patronizing attitude of some Northerners towards newly freed slaves and the internalization of hateful stereotypes by some blacks.Director Stan Lathan is perhaps best known to hip hop fans as the man behind ' BEAT STREET '! He also has done a lot of TV shows such as "The Steve Harvey Show" and the Def Comedy/Poetry "Jams".