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The Documentary Institute

The Documentary Institute is part of the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida, one of the top journalism programs in United States and home to PBS affiliate WUFT-TV.

The Documentary Institute has produced four documentaries that have aired nationally on PBS. The most recent was Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore which aired in January of 2001.

Freedom Never Dies

In 1951 after celebrating Christmas Day, civil rights activist Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette retired to bed in their white frame house tucked inside a small orange grove in Mims, Florida. Ten minutes later, a bomb shattered their house, their lives and any notions that the south's post-war transition to racial equality would be a smooth one. Harry Moore died that night, his wife nine days later.

Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore explores the life and times of this enigmatic leader, a distinguished school teacher whose passionate crusade for equal rights could not be discouraged by either the white power structure or the more cautious factions of his own movement. Although Moore's assassination was an international cause celebre in 1951, it was overshadowed by following events and eventually almost forgotten.

Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore, restores Moore to his rightful place in the Civil Rights saga.

Narrated by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.

Sweet Honey in the Rock and Toshi Reagon perform original music.

To learn more about Freedom Never Dies,
visit the web site at www.pbs.org/harrymoore.

Giving Up the Canal

The 1977 Panama Canal Treaty stipulated that on midnight of December 31, 1999, control of the Canal would pass from the United States to Panama. Giving Up the Canal explores the process in which the U.S. gradually became the tenant, Panama the landlord. The program, narrated by Edwin Newman, aired nationally on PBS in June 1990.

Campaign for Cuba

This documentary looks at how a powerful Cuban American exile group, the Cuban American National Foundation and its former leader, Jorge Mas Canosa, influenced U.S. policy toward Cuba in the 1980s and early 90s. Campaign for Cuba, narrated by Daniel Shorr, aired nationally on PBS in October 1992.

Last Days of the Revolution

This documentary examines the reasons behind the economic crisis Cuba suffered in the early 1990s and the subsequent mass exodus of Cubans to the United States. The program, narrated by Jose de Cordoba of the Wall Street Journal, aired nationally on PBS in November 1994 and on Swedish and Spanish television stations in 1995.