The Boston Public Library is screening the 14 part series "Eyes on the Prize", a documentary about the American civil rights movement (thanks for the link, Nicole):
Mondays, November 5, 2007 through January 7, 2008 at 6 p.m.

Eyes on the Prize is a fourteen-part documentary series about the American Civil Rights Movement that was created and produced by the Boston-based documentary filmmaker, Henry Hampton (1940-1998) of Blackside, Inc. Hampton was a major figure in Boston, serving on the boards of the Children’s Defense Fund and Boston’s Museum of African American History as Chairman. Hampton founded Blackside, Inc. in 1968 to produce independent film and television productions including Malcolm X, The Great Depression, and I’ll Make Me a World. Eyes on the Prize is his most acclaimed production, winning a Peabody Award and Emmy for Writing as well as being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary and an Emmy in Editing. The series uses extensive archival footage to present an in-depth account of the most important American social justice movement of the 20th century.

The particular significance of this to copyright is that the series will probably never be available on DVD due to the expense of copyright clearance.