Product Details

• Actors: James Earl Jones, Mary Alice, Joe Seneca, Tommy Hollis, Nicole Leach
• Directors: Kenneth Fink
• Writers: Kevin Arkadie, Leslie Lee
• Producers: David R. Kappes, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Gornick, Mitchell Galin, Richard P. Rubinstein
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Vidmark / Trimark
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303160093
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,167 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Vernon Johns Story - The Road to Freedom and Awareness, April 15, 2001

By	Kenneth A. Davis (Johnston, SC United States) - See all my reviews

If you want to see a movie that will wake you up, make you proud of your predecessors, and make you want to go out and do something constructive to improve the economic, spiritual and social status of black people, then this is the movie for you. James Earl Jones is superb as Vernon Johns, full of the essence of the word "love." Love is a verb, meaning to take action, not a feeling or some image of lust. Watch the movie with a friend, family member or someone who cares, and then go out and do something about it. Don't get excited about the movie and then do nothing about it. And don't think you are just one person and you will have no effect. Vernon Johns was one person and he paved the way for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights activists. Pave the way for a better community, county, state, nation and world. Thank you.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a "must have" for anyone teaching the civil rights movement, January 23, 2002

By	"hal1956" (West Orange, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

Through the writing of Taylor Branch, I was first introduced to the brilliant Vernon Johns and his unacknowledged role in the civil rights movement. I subsequently read "Voices for the Dexter Pulpit" (ed. Michael Thurman) and the unpublished biography of Johns written by Henry W. Powell of The Vernon Johns Society. The brilliant performance by James Earl Jones is as close to written accounts as one would expect. This is a "must see" for anyone who teaches the civil rights movement. Provides for a great debate topic - Johns v. MLK - why did one succeed and the other not?

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I like this movie., April 25, 2004

By	"forceflow307" (Some people know, MO) - See all my reviews

WARNING; THIS MOVIE MAY CAUSE A CHANGE OF HEART IN ITS VIEWERS. This is a great movie about a modern day prophet who is rejected byy his own people, but continues to spread the word. I give it a 4 1/2!