Sing Your Song 2012 Movie

Most people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer. This film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and to social justice globally. More details

Directors

Susanne Rostock

Cast

Harry Belafonte Sidney Poitier Marge Champion Fran Scott Attaway

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documentary biography music united nations international children's fund ambassador robert f. kennedy assassination martin luther king jr. assassination civil rights movement america justice civil rights f rated yankee stadium bronx new york city georgia usa reference to paul robeson toronto ontario canada world war two assassination imperative in title blood bare chested male drummer drum reference to martin robinson delaney poem soweto youth choir five year old nelson mandela foundation tv news california institute for women national medal of the arts new york yankees reference to willem botha united nations air drop big ben arc de triomphe paris year 1985 wounded knee cbs nuclear holocaust american flag murder reference to frank mankiewicz riker's island correctional facility new york city labor strike sanitation worker loss dehumanization right to vote shotgun newark new jersey edmund pettus bridge swimming water skiing ramming a car pickup truck reference to burke marshall reference to andrew goodman reference to james chaney reference to michael schwerner reference to jerome smith house unamerican activities committee student liberation african dossier psychotherapy folklore inaugural ball brotherhood show business interracial romance interracial marriage baby year 1954 year 1957 year 1959 harbel productions reference to leslie caron fan the person police violence teenage girl teenage boy social activism minority suppression cruelty u.s. sailor u.s. navy munitions loader racism photograph communist year 1951 little girl state trooper reference to ethel waters new school of social research manhattan new york city apartment emigrant political activist immorality morality soweto reference to jean bertrand aristide year 1990 year 1994 street gang train animated sequence censorship bridge bloody sunday world tour bonn germany liberal funeral train village sense of smell odor reference to tarzan rebellion chain gang voter registration voting rights emmy award publicist manager blues singer jazz singer folk song abandoned by father death threat reference to adolf hitler janitor's assistant mother son relationship recording year 1963 labor union indifference year 1973 year 1964 year 1968 year 1961 jackson mississippi tragic event blacklist katherine dunham dance company applause s. n. c. c.chicago illinois ku klux klan airport airplane informant police brutality we shall overcome thunderbird hotel las vegas gold record rca victor records reference to 20th century fox reference to metro goldwyn mayer reference to paramount pictures reference to mahatma gandhi revlon industries atlanta georgia street riot fame bus humiliation n word richmond virginia paris france concert blues music hip hop music los angeles california hope storyteller peace iraq war iraq prison visit guitarist guitar prisoner prison reference to rosa parks reference to elijah muhammad havana haiti fired from the job u.s. attorney general u.s. president war on poverty vietnam war false accusation cia mississippi memphis tennessee ethiopia dying death starvation hunger tears crying washington d.c.freedom ghana tanzania guinea reference to barack obama sr.kenyan kenya money montgomery alabama selma alabama greenwood mississippi apartheid prologue injustice reference to dr. janet kennedy psychoanalysis beverly hills reference to walter matthau montage folk music racial integration racial segregation bigotry prejudice non violence violence sadness anger american negro theatre swimming pool theater children arrest handcuffs police jamaica wedding divorce marriage las vegas nevada village vanguard manhattan new york city race relations south africa optimism home movie archive footage newsreel footage demonstration protest harlem manhattan new york city new york city manhattan new york city father son relationship father daughter relationship husband wife relationship family relationships reference to dorothy dandridge reference to ed begley reference to robert ryan reference to robert wise grammy award tony award reference to john murray anderson's almanac the stage musical reference to john murray anderson reference to 3 for tonight the stage musical reference to gower champion reference to louis armstrong reference to lena horne reference to broc peters hollywood calypso african american black american politics activist actor song singing singer

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