Lorraine Hansberry Trailers

Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart TrailerBlack Theatre: The Making of a Movement Trailer

Lorraine Hansberry was born May 19, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois. Her family challenged legal segregation, giving rise to the Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee. This might have inspired Hansberry to accomplish a first: The opening of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway on March 11, 1959, which was adapted to screenplay form for two feature films. No black female author had done the former before. The play's storyline about the Youngers, a black family trying out an integrationist vision of life in spite of societal racism, resonates with Hansberry's father's legal battle from a decade earlier. Although Hansberry had many writings published and wrote other plays, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window was her only other play that got a production during her life. In 1963, Hansberry received a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, leading to her untimely death at the age of 34.

Most Popular Lorraine Hansberry Trailers

Total trailers found: 7

To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words Trailer (1969)

02 March 1969

Excerpts from the 1969 Off-Broadway production at the Cherry Lane Theater of To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry, adapted by Robert Nemiroff, Hansberry's widower, and directed by Gene Frankel.

Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart Trailer (2017)

14 October 2017

On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever.

To Be Young, Gifted and Black Trailer (1972)

20 January 1972

A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries.

Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement Trailer (1978)

31 December 1978

This documentary explores the growth and development of black theatre from its earliest roots, also examining its close ties with the civil rights movement.

A Raisin in the Sun Trailer (2008)

25 February 2008

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man.

A Raisin in the Sun Trailer (1961)

28 May 1961

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man.

National Theatre Live: Les Blancs Trailer (2019)

01 September 2019

An African country teeters on the edge of civil war. A society prepares to drive out its colonial present and claim an independent future.