Major funding for Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey was provided by:
    • Ford Foundation
    • National Endowment for the Humanities
    • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
    • Camille O. Cosby and William H. Cosby, Jr.
    • The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
    • The National Black Programming Consortium

The film was sponsored by The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
A complete list of funders is available through PBS.

To date, the acclaimed PBS primetime special has been screened, or is scheduled to be screened, at the following:

FILM FESTIVALS
Houston International Film Festival (winner of the Gold Award for Documentary Feature), Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, Kerala International Film Festival (India), Lake Placid Film Festival (Honorable Mention), National Black Theatre Festival, Philadelphia International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, USA International Film Festival.

UNIVERSITIES, INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Bard College, Bates College, Black Film Collective, Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, City University of New York, Colgate University, Harvard Club, Library of Congress, Morehouse College, Museum of Modern Art, National Council for the Social Studies, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Spelman College, Syracuse University, United Nations, UCLA, University of Central Florida, University of Houston-Downtown, University of Illinois, University of Maryland, University of Oklahoma, Yale University.

Principal Production Credits

Narrated by:
SIDNEY POITIER

Written by:
WILLIAM GREAVES in association with LESLIE E. LEE

Based on the Biography Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey by BRIAN URQUHART

Producer/Director:
WILLIAM GREAVES

Co-Producer:
LOUISE ARCHAMBAULT

Music by:
WILLIAM GRANT STILL

Main Theme composed and conducted by:
KERMIT MOORE

Script Consultants:
GEOFFREY WARD and STEVE FAYER

Post-Production Consultant:
ALVIN PERLMUTTER

Supervising Editor:
WILLIAM GREAVES

AVID Editors:
PAUL SRP
CHRISTOPHER OSBORN

STEPHEN J. MACK
STEPHEN PERROTTA

LINDA HATTENDORF
MICHAEL PIEHL

Camera:
JERRY PANTZER

JOE MANGINE

Sound:
CHARLES BLACKWELL

JOHN OH

Researchers:
PAUL LEE DEBRA WILLIS

COURTNEY BROWN JR.
SHEILA MANIAR
BONNIE G. ROWAN

Chief Researcher:
LOUISE ARCHAMBAULT

Associate Producers:
JILL DICKERSON
KIM JAMISON

ARLENE KRIV
LAETITIA KOUASSI

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