Documentary report

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For this extra credit assignment, you will need to watch the following 2-hour documentary:

https://ucsc.kanopy.com/video/web-du-bois

 (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. Please write a 2-page (500-700 words) film review. This should NOT be just a summary of the film; instead, you should critically engage with it as a historical text. Some questions you might consider include: What are the major points the film is making about Du Bois's life? To what extent is it successful in providing insight into the intersection between his life experiences and his scholarly and activist work? How is he perceived by the people around him? How does the presence of each of the four different narrators change the emotional timbre of the film? Does one narrator resonate more with you than others? What surprised you about Du Bois's life? What did you learn that helps you place his work into the context of Classical Theory?