Media Representations
In 1990, Will Robinson and Ken Swartz produced a documentary about the explosion and trial, interviewing mutiny convict Joe Small and his defense lawyer Gerald Veltmann as well as Percy Robinson, a seaman who returned to loading ammunition after the first work-stoppage and Robert Routh, Jr., a seaman who was blinded in the blast. Danny Glover provided narration for the story which included dramatized scenes depicting events as they might have occurred in 1944. The documentary was nominated for the Peabody Awards and won an Emmy.
In 1996, Dan Collison interviewed Port Chicago sailors for WBEZ radio's PRI-distributed program, This American Life. The men described how they were initially trained for action on ships and were disappointed when they were not assigned to ocean-going ships. Collison interspersed interviews with contemporary news reports about the explosion.
The story of the Port Chicago 50 was the basis of Mutiny, a made-for-television movie written by James S. "Jim" Henerson and directed by Kevin Hooks, which included Morgan Freeman as one of three executive producers. Starring Michael Jai White, Duane Martin and David Ramsey as three fictional Navy seamen, the film aired on NBC on March 28, 1999.
The disaster was featured in "Port Chicago", a 2002 episode of the NBC/CBS drama television series JAG.
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