Looking back to Peabody Conversation with Alex Gibney, executive producer/director of "Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown," who he describes as "very much a part of the civil rights and black power movement in a way that was really transformative because he could speak to a mass audience in a way that so many people couldn't."

Read more: http://www.peabodyawards.com/stories/story/james-brown-the-music-of-the-civil-rights-era

2014 Peabody Winner

Alex Gibney’s biography of the hardest working man in show business gets up and gets on the scene, telling a fascinating story about race and culture and politics with amazing archival clips and interviews with musicians who worked with him.

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