We Shall Overcome

Name: We Shall Overcome
Director: Jim Brown
Genre: Dokumentum
Released: 1989-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z
Duration: 58 min
Cast: Harry Belafonte, Joan Baez

198958m

Dokumentum

Áttekintés

A documentary on the iconic song "We Shall Overcome" and its important legacy in the American Civil Rights movement, echoing all over the world as a recognizable song of struggle against social injustices. Singers and activists talk about its origins, used during a workers strike in the mid 1940's, and how the lyrics and its significance slightly changed in the next decades.