Freedom Song | Danny Glover, Vicellous Reon Shannon | Freedom Song: An Accurate Portrayal

Freedom Song | Danny Glover, Vicellous Reon Shannon | Wonderful history lesson!

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Freedom Song

	Freedom Song Danny Glover, Vicellous Reon Shannon Turner Home Ent, 2001 average customer review:based on 5 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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?"

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 make poignant the heroism of SNCC participants.

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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.

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 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.

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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.

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 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."

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