Freedom Summer
Release Date: 2014-01-17
Runtime: 113 min
Genre(s): documentary
Director: Stanley Nelson
Producer(s): Cyndee Readdean
Production Country: United States of America
Original Language: English
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.
Cast:
Aaron Henry, Albert Heffner, Allen C. Thompson, Amzie Moore, Anthony Harris, Barbara Jan Nave, Ben Chaney, Bob Clark, Bob Moses, Bruce Watson, Charles McLaurin, Charlie Cobb, Chris Hexter, Chris Williams, Daisy Harris, Dave Dennis, Dick Gregory, Dorothy Zellner, Dudley Connor, Edith Green, Edwin King, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Fannie Lou Hamer, Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, Hollis Watkins, Ivanhoe Donaldson, J. Edgar Hoover, James Forman, Joe Rauh, John Dittmer, Julian Bond, Karin Kunstler Goldman, Larry Rubin, Linda Wetmore Halpern, Lyndon B. Johnson, Malva Heffner, Martin Luther King Jr., Patti Miller, Peggy Jean Connor, Pete Seeger, Rita Schwerner Bender, Roscoe Jones, Ross Barnett, Sherwin Markman, Susan Brownmiller, Taylor Branch, Theron C. Lynd, Tracy Sugarman, Victoria Gray-Adams, Wally Butterworth, Walt Kaufman, William J. Simmons, William Scarborough, William Winter
Crew:
Stanley Nelson (Director), Stanley Nelson (Writer), Aljernon Tunsil (Editor), Tom Phillips (Original Music Composer), Richard Beymer (Director of Photography), Cyndee Readdean (Producer)