James Blue's 1964 film follows the organizing and execution of the August 28, 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, made for the United States Information Agency to show the event abroad. Black-and-white footage tracks buses and trains rolling into the capital before dawn, volunteers assembling sandwiches and signs, and the crowd swelling along the National Mall until it reaches the Lincoln Memorial. Blue builds the film around faces in the crowd as much as the speakers' platform, cutting between ordinary marchers and the podium where Martin Luther King Jr. delivers the closing lines of "I Have a Dream." The narration stays restrained, letting the scale of the gathering, some 250,000 people, carry the argument for itself. This digitally restored version cleans up footage that spent decades in government archives largely unseen by American audiences, since it was produced for overseas distribution. The result is a document of the day itself rather than a retrospective, made while the outcome of the civil rights movement was still very much undecided.