Freedom Song (movie)

Name: Freedom Song
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Released: 2000-1-27
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Danny Glover, Vicellous Shannon, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Loretta Devine, Glynn Turman

User score: 5.8
Production country: United States of America
Producer: Phil Alden Robinson
Production companies: Turner Films
Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Release date: 2/27/2000
Run time: 112 min.

Movie description

Freedom Song is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle of African Americans to register to vote in the fictional town of Quinlan. In the midst of the Freedom Summer, a group of high school students in the small town are eager to make grassroots changes in their own community. The young activists meet resistance not only from white southerners, but from their parents, who have experienced firsthand the violence that can result from speaking out. As high school students band together with the support of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, they make strides in registering African-American voters and gaining awareness for their cause.