Freedom Song (2000)

Synopsis: The story of the Civil-Rights Movement as seen through the eyes of a teenage Owen Walker (Shannon--THE HURRICANE) growing up in bigotry laden Mississippi in the 1960s at a time when Jim Crow black... The story of the Civil-Rights Movement as seen through the eyes of a teenage Owen Walker (Shannon--THE HURRICANE) growing up in bigotry laden Mississippi in the 1960s at a time when Jim Crow black segregation laws were legal. Owen regrets his father's (Glover--LETHAL WEAPON) passive behavior against racism and joins the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as they struggle to reeducate black citizens and gain basic human rights, predominately the right to vote. From the writer and director of FIELD OF DREAMS, based on accounts of actual SNCC members. A TNT original movie. [More]

Starring: Danny Glover, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Vicellous Shannon, Loretta Devine

Starring: Danny Glover, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Vicellous Shannon, Loretta Devine, Glynn Turman, Stan Shaw, Michael Jai White, David Strathairn

Director: Phil Alden Robinson

Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Screenwriter: Phil Alden Robinson, Stanley Weiser
Composer: James Horner

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