Time is launching a new documentary film division dubbed Red Border Films, and its inaugural project will examine a seminal chapter in Civil Rights history.
Red Border will announce itself with a multimedia site commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
Time said it got the idea for Red Border from its Emmy Award-winning "Beyond 9/11" project, which looked at the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath 10 years later.
It will go live on Time.com Aug. 15. Time also will release a special issue on the march and the legacy of King's oration on the same date.
The package will feature 10 films — five documentaries and five brief personal histories –by Time photographer and filmmaker Marco Grob. The films include interviews with U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), singers Joan Baez and Harry Belafonte and others involved in the Civil Rightsmovement.
Red Border also will release two short films this fall. The first profiles Bobby Henline, an injured Iraqi war veteran who is now a standup comedian, and the second will look at the growing popularity of surrogacy for Western couples in India.
