SINGH: Jon, some of the most riveting interviews I found in "Eyes On The Prize" are with white Southerners who fought hard against the progress civil rights workers were trying to make. ELSE: Yeah.

Halfway through “True South,” Jon Else describes an “out of body experience” he had in the mid-1980s while working on “Eyes on the Prize,” the landmark television series that, as Mr ...

Today‘s Al Roker and filmmaker Jon H. Else will receive Lifetime Achievement honors at the 46th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. Roker will be recognized for his career in broadcast ...

Also set to be given the lifetime achievement is documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, producer, and director Jon Else. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which … ...

Now Else has written “True South,” a sort of “making of” book, published on the 30th anniversary of the original “Eyes” broadcast.

Jon Else worked on the SNCC staff in 1964 and 1965. He was series producer and cinematographer for Eyes on the Prize, has produced and directed many award-winning documentaries, including The Day ...

Else weaves Hampton's story, and his own, into the narrative of the making of "Eyes on the Prize" in ways that give that tale depth and insight. Else's retelling of his time as a young activist in ...

Filmmaker Jon Else was also honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Carrie Lozano during Thursday night's ceremony at the Palladium Times Square. By McKinley Franklin The Sing Sing ...

Else wishes “Eyes” wasn’t quite so relevant to current events. The Voting Rights Act, covered in the series’ final episode, took a big hit from the Supreme Court in 2013.

Renowned documentary filmmaker, producer and cinematographer Jon Else, who helmed the famed 1981 feature documentary The Day After Trinity, will be recognized with a lifetime achievement award at ...

Also set to be given the lifetime achievement is documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, producer, and director Jon Else. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which […] ...