Freedom Summer
7.9
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.
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Anthony Harris
Self - Mississippi Resident
Bruce Watson
Self - Author of 'Freedom Summer'
Stanley Nelson
Stacey L. Holman
Aljernon Tunsil
Karin Kunstler Goldman
Self - Freedom Summer Volunteer
Julian Bond
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Also in
Greased Lightning
Violence: An American Tradition
Cyndee Readdean
Dudley Connor
Self - Racist Lawyer (archive footage)
Mark Samels
Dorothy Zellner
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Peggy Jean Connor
Self - Mississippi Resident
Stanley Nelson Director · Tom Phillips Composer Richard Beymer Cinematographer
United States release February 1, 2022 · Produced in United States · Production Firelight Films, Doc Society
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GBH
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Firelight Films
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Doc Society
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WGBH Boston
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United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · January 17, 2014
Premiere · Sundance Film Festival
United States · February 1, 2022
Digital · The Criterion Channel
United States
June 24, 2014 · TV · PBS
Finland
July 7, 2015 · TV premiere
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