American Experience: Freedom Summer (2014)

Documentary, History

Director: Stanley Nelson

Writer(s): Stanley Nelson

Starring: Karin Kunstler Goldman, Julian Bond, Peggy Jean Connor, Dudley Connor, Dorothy Zellner, Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Patti Miller, Tracy Sugarman, Larry Rubin, Rita Schwerner, Hollis Watkins, Anthony Harris, Wally Butterworth, Bruce Watson, William Winter, William J. Simmons, William Scarborough, John Dittmer, Charlie Cobb, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Ivanhoe Donaldson, Bob Moses, Charles McLaurin, James Forman, Ed 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 Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, Pete Seeger, Ben Chaney, Victoria Gray-Adams, Aaron Henry, Joe Rauh, Sherwin Markman, Taylor Branch, Martin Luther King, Edith Green, Constance Baker Motley, Hubert H. Humphrey, Walter Reuther, Walter Mondale, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Catherine Taormina, Brian Hopson

Synopsis: A look back at the summer of 1964, when more than 700 student activists took segregated Mississippi by storm, registering voters, creating freedom schools and establishing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

Release Date: January 17, 2014 (USA) | Length: 113 min | Genre: History | Certificate: PG

Note: Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014.