The Learning Tree is a 1969 American coming-of-age film written, produced and directed by Gordon Parks, who also scored the film. It depicts the life of Newt Winger, a teenager growing up in …

The Learning Tree: Directed by Gordon Parks. With Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans, Dana Elcar. A bittersweet, idyllic story about a year in the life of 14-year-old Newt Winger, born into a poor …

The Learning Tree (1969) A bittersweet and idyllic story about a year in the life of a 14-year-old Newt Winger, born into a poor black family in Kansas, who learns about love, fear, racial injustice, immorality.

With this tender and clear-eyed coming-of-age odyssey, the renowned photographer turned filmmaker Gordon Parks not only became the first Black American director to make a Hollywood studio film, he …

This Saturday on BlackTreeTV, we honor a landmark in American cinema with our featured film: The Learning Tree (1969), written, produced, and directed by the legendary Gordon Parks — the first...

As early as 1969, Warner Bros. financed the produc-tion of Gordon Parks’s drama “The Learning Tree,” a semiautobiographical, humanistic recounting of black life in Depression-era America. The film …

Nov 8, 2025 · Based on his 1963 autobiographical novel, The Learning Tree, it marked the feature film debut of Gordon Parks, who was the first African American staff photographer for Life magazine.

Find out how and where to watch "The Learning Tree" on Netflix and Prime Video today - including free options.

The Learning Tree is a sentimental, sometimes awkward, but ultimately moving film about the growing-up of a black teenager in rural Kansas during the 1920s.

Released in August 1969, The Learning Tree was the first film directed by a Black American for a major Hollywood film studio, Warner Brothers-Seven Arts.