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.

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 ...

Jon Else was among the producers who worked on the celebrated documentary series “Eyes on the Prize,” about the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s — including the marches from ...

“True South” author Jon Else (right) dropped out of college to join the civil rights movement, and in 1964 visited sharecroppers near Toomsuba, Miss. Years later, Else would work as producer ...

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

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 […] ...

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 ...

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 ...

Else, an accomplished documentarian, chronicles the making of the 1987 TV civil rights documentary Eyes on the Prize, created by Henry Hampton, in this ambitious, sweeping chronicle. Hampton ...