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3.5/4 Roger Ebert Running time 100 minutes Language English Director Aviva Kempner Screenplay Aviva Kempner | 8/10 IMDb 94% Rotten Tomatoes Written by Aviva Kempner Country United States Initial release 14 August 2015 (USA) Music director Zane Mark Producer Aviva Kempner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date February 25, 2015 (2015-02-25) (Washington Jewish Film Festival)August 14, 2015 (2015-08-14) Cast Julian Bond, Eugene Robinson, George C Wolfe, Stephanie Deutsch, Peter Ascoli Similar The Life and Times of Hank G, Dark Girls, Supermensch: The Legend o, The Black Panthers: Vanguard, Banished Profiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rosenwald is a 2015 documentary film directed by Aviva Kempner about the career of American businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald. It debuted on February 25, 2015 at the Washington Jewish Film Festival.
Contents
- Official trailer rosenwald
- Tuesday film series rosenwald 11 24 2015
- Synopsis
- Box office
- Critical reception
- Accolades
- References
Tuesday film series rosenwald 11 24 2015
Synopsis
The documentary features interviews with a number of people, including Peter Ascoli, grandson and biographer of Rosenwald, Julian Bond, Stephanie Deutsch, Richard J. Powell, Eugene Robinson and George C. Wolfe.
The film begins with an account of Rosenwald's rise from a job in the clothing business of his father, a German-Jewish immigrant, to the chairmanship of Sears-Roebuck, which he then builds into the world's largest retailer. Shocked by reports of anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia, he realizes that America's treatment of Negroes is no better and marshals his fortune to improving their condition. He develops a friendship with Booker T. Washington, helps Tuskegee Institute and then begins building schoolhouses for Negro children across the American South. With fundraising and sweat equity participation from local communities, he manages to construct 5,357 Rosenwald schools by the time of his death in 1932, about one-third of all elementary schools available for African Americans prior to the end of U.S. school segregation in 1954.
Other Rosenwald-supported projects depicted in the film include establishing 25 YMCA-YWCAs for African-Americans, founding the Museum of Science and Industry, building the Michigan Boulevard Garden Apartments, a housing project for blacks moving to Chicago, and helping pay for the training the Tuskegee Airmen. The documentary concludes by chronicling the impact of the Rosenwald Fund which awarded grants to many black artists and writers in the mid-twentieth century, including a large number of well-known African Americans.
Box office
The film had grossed $412,511 as of 5 November 2015.
Critical reception
The documentary has received extremely positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 93%, based on 30 reviews, with an average rating of 7.8/10.
Positive reviewers included The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and rogerebert.com.