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Michael Jackson's Influence on Black Culture (BBC Documentary 12/2009)

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Documentary produced by BBC that explores Michael Jackson's musical and social influences on black culture. The show explores Michael's journey through the Chitlin Circuit in the late 1960s, the Motown Years, the move from Motown to CBS, transitioning from a child star to an adult superstar, Thriller, Bad, etc. This is really one of the best shows about Michael I've seen since his death.

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GCxHTEx4CQ

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw_F-77YtLE

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0phyMA6FcY

Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4pVbUtmuXY

Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U7gC6CRng8

Part 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfZxK7AqCpU

People that appear on the show include: Smokey Robinson; Questlove; Jermaine Jackson; Ralph Johnson and Verdine White (Earth, Wind and Fire); Berry Gordy; Martha Reeves; Savion Glover (choreographer); Jeffrey Daniels (choreographer); Rafael Saadiq; Greg Tate (Black Rock Coalition); Larry and Fonce Mizell (The Corporation); David Fossett (MJ's cousin); Arthur Jafa (film maker & writer); local residents of Gary, IN; Don Black (writer of 'Ben'); Steve Barron (director of Billie Jean music video).
 
Good doc upto 1993 after which time they appeared to relegate the last 16 years of his life/career to a few soundbites. Jafa's comments were particularly good, I thought.
 
Very good documentary. Finally something about the music. I liked the part about the black panther, and how that showed his black pride. I wished they talked a bit more about that though cause there's just so much more that showed his black pride and debunks all that nonsense that he didn't wanna be black and what not. That article from Phonte from Little Brother had alot of information on that. But a real good documentary still, to see the Motown 25 performance again...and how the guy explains how there's energy all around in Michael and every single bodypart is moving, it's so true. When they showed the casket though...sigh...i got the chills for real. Such a immense loss.
 
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thank u for link.gr8 documentary up till part 5then it becomes tabloid tell as usual. i still think people are not looking in depth of his music or music video and they didn't show TDRCU which is very important song or earth song.
people need to look beyond thriller and Billie jean ,most of the time they think he was at his peak at this time but they don't see how he evolve through out his career,that is why all his songs and music videos are still modern when compared with other videos.
he was way ahead . i think it's going to take time to analyze his music because we have to do catching up with him.
 
I just finish seeing this doc and while watching parts 1-5 I wished I had a chance to record it...then I saw the ending part 6 and thanked god I didn't! They totally messed it up completely for me talking about he turned himself white had white children and completely ignoring anything after dangerous saying his career died after 93! It messed up the whole thing for me with that ending what a shame! He is more then just the thriller album!
 
bluetopez said:
I just finish seeing this doc and while watching parts 1-5 I wished I had a chance to record it...then I saw the ending part 6 and thanked god I didn't! They totally messed it up completely for me talking about he turned himself white had white children and completely ignoring anything after dangerous saying his career died after 93! It messed up the whole thing for me with that ending what a shame! He is more then just the thriller album!
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Would it really kill the media to do an all out positive documentary about Michael Jackson? It's like they can't help themselves anymore, they just need to add somethine negetive in there
 
I remember watching this when it originally aired. I think it’s one of the better documentaries. I was able to find these parts.
 
83magic said:
I remember watching this when it originally aired. I think it’s one of the better documentaries. I was able to find these parts.
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Awesome detective work, 83magic.

I've just watched Part 1. Really enjoyed it. Did not like the voiceover. It was the worst kind of hideously old-fashioned BBC voiceover from, oh I dunno. It felt like we hadn't left the 1950's. But that was the only thing I didn't like. The rest of it was fabulous. A very young looking Ian Wright, lol. So cute. A good mix of talking heads. From Ian Wright to Don Letts, that's not bad. I'm glad they flagged up the racism. It shouldn't be glossed over. The film footage was really good. The whole thing felt slightly rushed to me but that's probably bc I'm never satisfied with these types of documentaries.

Thank you so much for posting this. Gonna go and watch Part 2 now. :)
 
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