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Freedom Song

Danny Glover (Actor), Phil Alden Robinson (Director, Writer) Rated:
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Format: DVD
4.5 out of 5 stars 26 customer reviews
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  • Actors: Danny Glover
  • Directors: Phil Alden Robinson
  • Writers: Phil Alden Robinson, Stanley Weiser
  • Format: Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated:
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  • Studio: Turner Home Ent
  • DVD Release Date: August 7, 2007
  • Run Time: 117 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000BNTMBO
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #59,452 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 starsCompelling Drama Ideal for Secondary Students
By TheMemoryHole on April 23, 2009
Format: DVD
I teach US History at the secondary level. Recently I used this video as part of our examination of the twin themes of resistance and oppression during the Civil Rights Era. Rather than give a detailed analysis of the movie's merits (there are many, but it also has a few very minor production flaws), let me illustrate my support of the video by way of example. We watched the video over a four day period, in half hour chunks. During the second day of viewing (about 20 or so minutes into the film) a fight erupted in the hallway outside my classroom: it was a zinger, complete with all manner of crucial language being shouted at the top of very capable student lungs. Drawn to the action I went outside to help break up the fight and, in the process, was drawn away from my classroom for a good two or three minutes. Now anyone who works at the secondary level knows that fights generally tend to draw students to them like metal to a magnet; in my experience this is the case regardless of where the students are or what they're doing. They often converge on the action with downright ferocity so they don't miss anything really noteworthy. Well, I returned to my classroom to find the door shut (big uh-oh)... Yet after opening it, I found my entire class sitting there, rapt, watching the video as if nothing had just occurred outside the room. I noticed they had even backed up the video a bit, presumably to re-watch the moments interrupted by the commotion. In my nine years of teaching, NOTHING I have seen stops students in my school from rushing to watch a fight. This video, however, did just that--and in spades. With regard to content, the film does a wonderful job of raising questions of the complexity of social action.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsMore than just Civil Rights
By Akbar on March 19, 2001
Format: VHS Tape
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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5.0 out of 5 starsFinally, a truthful movie about the civil rights movement
By Terence Cannon on September 16, 2011
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
I was a SNCC field secretary in the Sixties. The film industry has not done well by those times. Almost inevitably, white men in authority (the lawyer in To Kill a Mockingbird, the FBI agents in Mississippi Burning) are the major figures, who help the poor black folks out. Finally, along comes FREEDOM SONG, which tells the story the way I know it happened: African Americans helping, defending, organizing, defying state terror themselves. The white man in authority is a helpless Justice Department figure on the sidelines.

That and the remarkable acting and direction make it the film to see if you want to know what actually went on in Mississippi during those incredible times.
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5.0 out of 5 starsWhat a film! I show it my high school students
By Alene Morrison on May 22, 2009
Format: DVD
Freedom Song is a powerful drama rather than a dry documentary. I just love the way the Civil Rights movement becomes a nonfiction narrative that grabs the audience from the very first scene and keeps them moving right along with the action. This film is told as a flashback from the main character's point of view and he begins in his youth when he was mistreated by whites for going into a diner inadvertently (he was like 4) and the owner forced his father to whip him in the diner--an act his father had never done before. It is through experience as a black man in the south that this young man learns about life. The film captures many of the trials and tribulations Blacks faced at that time including voter registration, sit-ins, marches, secret Snick meetings, and Freedom Riders. I found the movie interesting because the characters are very believable and the story so true to life for the 1960s. The young man who first was whipped in the diner experiences triumph in the end. A true winner of a film. Anyone interested in the Civil Rights Movement should definitely see this, because it is a behind the scenes look at what was happening throughout the south. Black men and women put their lives on the line on a daily basis, some dying in the process, but they persevered to secure equality for their people.

I teach high school and taught this film this year. The students, who often are disconnected to school, this film grabbed their attention and kept it. They learned about diversity, discrimination, and the Civil Rights movement. It was an incredible experience for them all. Some even cried. Get this film.
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat inspirational video!
By K-Man on June 18, 2013
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I really enjoyed watching this video! I first watched it in my American History class, and I believe that this video really shows how the fight for freedom was accomplished. I would recommend this to others!
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5.0 out of 5 starsAnother good Danny Glover movie
By barbara on May 1, 2013
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Everything about this movie was great, I will be adding this movie to my large collection. Danny Glovers' son could not understand why his Dad appeared to be a coward, not understanding as a young boy in that Era that this was the way it was, not saying that this iwas a correct way of thinking, it certainly was not, but his dad was looking out for his sons' well being as we'll as his own. The young man lost respect but gained it back when he understood better.
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