The Learning Tree

 

Year: 1969

Time: 107 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 1107

Release Date: Tuesday, 14 December 2021

MSRP: $39.95

 

Blu-ray

1 Disc

2.35:1

1.37:1

1.37:1

1.37:1

English PCM Mono 1.0

English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

Subtitles: English

Region A

 

 New documentary on the making of the film, featuring artist and critic Ina Diane Archer, curator Rhea L. Combs, and filmmakers Ernest Dickerson and Nelson George   New conversation, moderated by film scholar Michael B. Gillespie, between artist Hank Willis Thomas and art historian Deborah Willis about the influence of director Gordon Parks   My Father: Gordon Parks (1969), a documentary made on the set of The Learning Tree, narrated by Gordon Parks Jr., and featuring interviews with Gordon Parks Sr. and members of the cast and crew   Diary of a Harlem Family and The World of Piri Thomas, two 1968 films on which Parks played creative roles, with a new introduction by Rhea L. Combs   Unstoppable (2005), a documentary featuring producer Warrington Hudlin in conversation with Parks and filmmakers Ossie Davis and Melvin Van Peebles   Trailer   “How It Feels to Be Black,” a 1963 Life magazine photo-essay by Gordon Parks, and an excerpt from the director’s 2005 book A Hungry Heart: A Memoir