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==Film== In September 2009 a documentary about FWP, ''Soul of a People: Writing America's Story'', premiered on the [[Smithsonian Channel]] . It was funded by the [[National Endowment for the Humanities]].The film includes interviews with American authors [[Studs Terkel]] and [[Stetson Kennedy]], and American historian [[Douglas Brinkley]]. A companion book was published by [[Wiley & Sons]] as ''Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America''. The Slave Narrative Collection was featured in the [[HBO]] documentary, ''[[Unchained Memories|Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives]]''. The film includes actors [[Angela Bassett]] and [[Samuel L. Jackson]] performing dramatic readings of selected transcripts. The 1999 film ''[[Cradle Will Rock]]'', by [[Tim Robbins]], while depicting the events of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), dramatizes the attacks against Federal One by HUAC. Its efforts resulted in closing both the FTP and the FWP.
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