I just finished watching "Jackie Robinson," and I'm feeling overwhelmed.
You know that feeling? When you are so excited about something and you want to tell everybody everything about it, but you just can't find the words?
That's how good the new PBS documentary is.
Weaving together crisp writing, still photographs, historic footage and moving, insightful interviews, "Jackie Robinson" creates a full portrait of one of the most important men in American history.
This is not a caricature of "Saint Jackie," the black man who broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947 by "turning the other cheek.