Jackie Robinson — Teaser Trailer

source:   pbs.org, youtube.com

added: Thu, Feb 18th '16

In the upcoming two-part PBS documentary, celebrated documentarian Ken Burns gets to the heart of what made Jackie Robinson a larger-than-life figure by unpeeling the many layers of the baseball legend's life and career.

Though largely known for breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947 -- and later known as the first African-American baseball player to win an MVP award in 1949, Robinson's post-baseball life was just as groundbreaking. A major political figure during the civil rights era, Robinson also became the first black sports announcer in history when he served as a baseball analyst for ABC's weekly televised coverage of MLB games in 1965.

The newly-released teaser trailer provocatively starts off with a series of title cards that reads: "Troublemaker, soldier, pioneer, radical," and finally "champion." The clip ends with the tagline, "if you only know the legend, you DON'T know the man, Jackie Robinson."

Directed, written, and produced by Burns, along with his daughter, Sarah Burns (The Central Park Five), and frequent collaborator David McMahon, the two-part "Jackie Robinson" documentary, which is narrated by Keith David, will air over two back-to-back nights on PBS, starting Monday, April 11.