Movie Description
Freedom Summer
(2014)Overview
In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying authorities, they registered voters, created freedom schools, and established the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Fifty years later, eyewitness accounts and never-before-seen archival material tell their story. Not all of them would make it through.
Featured Crew
- Director : Stanley Nelson
- Producer : Cyndee Readdean
- Writer : Stanley Nelson
- Editor : Aljernon Tunsil
- Cast : Anthony Harris,Bruce Watson,Karin Kunstler Goldman,Julian Bond,Dudley Connor,Dorothy Zellner,Peggy Jean Connor,Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons,Patti Miller,Tracy Sugarman,Larry Rubin,Rita Schwerner Bender,Hollis Watkins,Wally Butterworth,William Winter,William J. Simmons,William Scarborough,John Dittmer,Charlie Cobb,Eleanor Holmes Norton,Ivanhoe Donaldson,Bob Moses,Charles McLaurin,James Forman,Edwin King,Fannie Lou Hamer,Amzie Moore,Dick Gregory,Bob Clark,Allen C. Thompson,Linda Wetmore Halpern,Susan Brownmiller,Chris Williams,Theron C. Lynd,Dave Dennis,Daisy Harris,Roscoe Jones,Walt Kaufman,Chris Hexter,Ross Barnett,Barbara Jan Nave,Malva Heffner,Albert Heffner,Lyndon B. Johnson,J. Edgar Hoover,Pete Seeger,Ben Chaney,Victoria Gray-Adams,Aaron Henry,Joe Rauh,Sherwin Markman,Taylor Branch,Martin Luther King Jr.,Edith Green
Cast
Self - Mississippi Resident
Self - Author of 'Freedom Summer'
Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Self - Racist Lawyer (archive footage)
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Self - Mississippi Resident
Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer
Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer
Self
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Self - Racist Radio Host (archive footage)
Self - Treasurer of Mississippi 1964-1968
Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council (archive footage)
Self - Mississippi Citizens' Council
Self - Historian
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Self (archive footage)
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Self - Comedian (archive footage)
Self - ABC News Correspondent (archive footage)
Self - Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi (archive footage)
Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer
Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer
Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer
Self - Registrar of Voters, Forrest County, Mississippi
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Self - Mississippi Resident
Self - Mississippi Resident
Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer (archive footage)
Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer
Self - Former Governor of Mississippi (archive footage)
Self - Miss Mississippi 1963
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Self
Self (archive footage)
Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer (archive footage)
Self - Co-Founder, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Self (archive footage)
Self - Special Assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966-68
Self - Historian
Self (archive footage)
Self - Congresswoman, Democratic Party (archive footage)
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Facts
Original TitleFreedom Summer
Status Released
Release Information
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2014-01-17
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 01h 53m
Homepagehttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/freedomsummer/
Production CompaniesGBH,Firelight Films
Genres
- Documentary
