In Search of Our Fathers

In Search of Our Fathers

African-American, racism, masculinity, documentary

Gift from filmmaker; I met him working on an activist media project on diversity and identity in the 1990s called "Isms" I do believe.

Frontline

1992

"African-American filmmaker Marco Williams was twenty-four years old the first time he learned his father's name. He had been raised in a closely knit family where for generations, strong, husbandless mothers were the norm and fathers promptly disappeared. This film documents Marco's seven-year search for the elusive father he never knew and his coming to terms with the truth of his origins." (Alexander Street Press)

Marco Williams was 24 years old when he learned his father’s name. It was the first of many things he would discover about himself and his family in a journey into his family’s past. Frontline airs the first-person story of Williams’s seven-year search to learn about his father, to uncover the circumstances surrounding his birth, and to come to terms with what it means to grow up fatherless. -Frontline

70 minutes

VHS

70 minutes

Marco Williams

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