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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780630543
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 0780630548
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Release Date: January 23, 2001
Running Time: 150 minutes
Sales Rank: 8136
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: February 27, 2000
Editorial Review:
Description:
Freedom Song is a compelling microcosm of the Civil Rights Movement, as stirring chronicle of unsung small-town citizens who risked their lives to bring change to the grassroots level. Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams) co-scripts and directs this powerful tale set in fictional Quinlan and based on first-hand accounts of vetran activists who stood on the frontlines of history and responded with passion and commitment to the challenge of 'If not me, who? If not now, when?'
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Great teaching tool to understand the Grassroots concept of the CRM
Our US History Students finally understood the concept of grassroots movements as it pertained to the CRM. Through this movie and the worksheets through Bringing the movement back to the CRM, our students fully understand oppression, resistance and how young people were involved in the CRM.
Rating: - Freedom Is Never Free
On Memorial Day 2006, I was at my Church for our special holiday service. I was assigned to help with passing out communion and the offering plate. After the ushers serve, we pray and take communion ourselves. One of the gentlemen prayed in thanks for those who served, fought and died in wars so that Americans could maintain life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Too bad he had nothing to say about those who fought the battle for the Civil Rights Movement. Blacks have fought in this country's ... Read More
Rating: - Freedom Song: An Accurate Portrayal
This movie is an accurate and touching portrayal of Mississippi from a racial standpoint in the early 1960's. I am a professor at a small college and show this video often to my students, most born after 1980, to reveal what conditions were like for African Americans in the South during the civil rights movement. I accompany the movie with clips from Eyes on the Prize. The students never fail to be impressed with both videos, but the narration and the consistant character portrayal in Freedom Song really ... Read More
Rating: - More than just Civil Rights
Civil Rights - may be a cliche' because there is not enough interesting information out there that captures ones attention without them feeling sad for a couple of days with no lasting effect. Danny Glovers film Freedom Song, shows the turmoil within the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee("snick")as well as the overwhelming odds without. The general public know Dr. Martin Luther King, but little about anything else. Truth be known, Dr King would have failed without the concerted efforts of the other ... Read More
Rating: - Wonderful history lesson!
This film is a wonderful dramatization of the civil rights struggle in a small town in Mississippi. The story is complex and compelling. The viewer is drawn in by the difficulties faced by the young hero who struggles to understand the limitations of his father's way of life while fighting for freedom. This film makes the civil rights movement more real and personal than most documentaries can.
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