The film presents a lot of insights as to what were the main reasons that pushed the people into launching the Civil Rights Movement in the United States of America. It comes at a time when the black African Americans and many other minority groups in the nation were highly being discriminated against by the whites in the country. This made their lives to be undesirable. They were racially discriminated by their majorities in almost all the sectors of the economy of America forcing the people to launch a rebellion to help them gain equal right at the hands of the white people in the USA. This paper seeks to analyze the way the Eyes on the Prize movie presents the American civil rights movement by examining how the filmmakers understood it.

The Awakenings episode of the movie highly pays attention to the killing or Lynching of innocent people from the minority races in the country and how the same pushed the people into calling for their rights through the movement. In the film, an underage Emmet Till is lynched in Mississippi on racial grounds something that agitates the minorities into calling for their rights in the nation. There is also the subsequent sentencing of Rosa Park and the Montgomery bus boycott in the country. The film also shows that there was the creating of the Southern Christian Leadership meeting as well the recruitment of the local people, as well as their leaders into the Black African American people, struggle for independence in the nation. In this episode, the filmmakers wanted to show the people the various factors that pushed the Black people in the country into fighting for their rights, which was because of the discriminative national acts that were adversely affecting the social, economic, as well as political lives in the country. The filmmakers also wanted to show how the black people formed their team to fight against inhuman treatment that they were being put through by their white counterparts in the country.

The movie also presents the Fighting Back period 1957 to 1962, in which the locals refused to be discriminated from getting access to the academic organization being used by the white people. The people only wanted to have separate, but equal education in the country something that the minority understood was highly inconveniencing them in the job market resulting in them leading unsatisfying lifestyles because of the inadequate incomes. This episode also features the first success where the Supreme Court ruling on Brown v. Board of education resulted in the rise of the first African American high school organizations and the college students from the all the racial backgrounds were to integrate the white academic institutions. Thus, the black African American people had decided that they would instead be killed or put to whatever inhuman conditions but they would only keep their “eyes on the prize.”

In conclusion, the movie makers were successful in delivering their central message as they based their material on the factors that caused the black African Americans to form a rebellion against the harsh racial treatment that they were being put through in the country. Some of the reasons from the movie comprise of the lynching of the blacks, inadequate access to higher education, and baseless sentencing of the people from the minority races. The film also attains its objectives by pointing out some of the “prizes” that the people obtained by fighting in the war, which comprise of being awarded equal access to high education such as high schools and college education.