The Old Negro Space Program (2004)
The suppressed history of America's Black space program, in mockumentary form broadly satirizing Ken Burns and histories of the Negro Baseball Leagues.
- Date of release
- 2004-03-04
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 10m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Andy Bobrow
Casting
- Johnny Brown — Wallace 'Suitcase' Jefferson
- Rodney Saulsberry
- Rodney Saulsberry — Narrator (voice)
- Andy Bobrow — Dr. Warren Fingerroot
- Jordan Black — Sullivan Carew (voice)
Interesting facts
The Old Negro Space Program is a short mockumentary in the style of a Ken Burns film. Imagining a black space program, whose "blackstronauts" were excluded from "White NASA", the film lampoons Burns's history of the Negro leagues, a subject of his 1994 series, Baseball.
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