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| Freedom Song | 
 enlarge | Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Actors: Danny Glover, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Vondie Curtis-hall, Loretta Devine, Glynn Turman
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 23048
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 150
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: TRNDT7471D
ISBN: 0780652975
UPC: 053939747126
EAN: 9780780652972
ASIN: B000BNTMBO
Theatrical Release Date: February 27, 2000
Release Date: January 10, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Great teaching tool to understand the Grassroots concept of the CRM May 27, 2008
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.
Freedom Is Never Free November 7, 2007
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 wars since 1775, but soldiers who came home from WWII and Korea were still denied even the most basic freedoms- to live the lives they wanted to live. The Civil Rights movement really was the last battle of the American Revolution.
Freedom Song is an outstanding film and is as important a movie as Saving Private Ryan or Flags of our Fathers. It represents the events that made it possible for people like me- I'm African-American- to even go see SPR and Flags in any theatre I want and sit wherever I choose. In one of the other reviews, a teacher mentioned he shows this film to his students. God bless him. If we forget the sacrifices of those who came before us- the civil rights crusaders or the soldiers of our country's wars- we forget who we are and what we stand for- a nation "conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Freedom Song: An Accurate Portrayal April 17, 2002
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 make poignant the heroism of SNCC participants.
More than just Civil Rights March 20, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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 groups such as SNCC. It was good to see the diversity of youth the way it really was. What a positive thing for our children of all races to see, how when you believe in something the price is very high, but attainable.
Wonderful history lesson! February 19, 2001
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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