Come join an NVA favorite, Milena (Sellers) Phillips, for this month’s film club:
761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers!
The New Village Arts Film Club is a free online film club that involves the community in lively discussions of pre-screened films.
This month we’re watching 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers.
Executive Produced and featuring Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman, “761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers” will tell the true story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first Black tank unit to serve in combat during WWII, and explore in-depth the major battles they faced both overseas while in combat and back home in the United States. It features an interview with one of the last surviving members of the 761st Battalion, as well as the current and first Black Secretary of Defense, Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, alongside new and archival interviews, period footage, still photographs and new commentary and stories from family and relatives of the Black Panther soldiers. The documentary will also feature insights and opinions of prominent historians on WWII and experts on race and inequality in America.
Screen this movie in advance on History.com (Click Here)
Join us on Monday, September 18th from 6:00 – 7:30 pm
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