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Sing Your Song

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6.5
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Original title
Sing Your Song
Year
Running time
103 min.
Country
United States United States
Director
Screenwriter
Cast
Documentary
Music
Producer
Genre
Documentary | Music Documentary
Synopsis
Wonderfully archived, and told with a remarkable sense of intimacy, visual style, and musical panache, Susanne Rostock’s inspiring biographical documentary, Sing Your Song, surveys the life and times of singer/actor/activist Harry Belafonte. From his rise to fame as a singer, inspired by Paul Robeson, and his experiences touring a segregated country, to his provocative crossover into Hollywood, Belafonte’s groundbreaking career personifies the American civil rights movement and impacted many other social-justice movements. Rostock reveals Belafonte as a tenacious hands-on activist, who worked intimately with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., mobilized celebrities for social justice, participated in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and took action to counter gang violence, prisons, and the incarceration of youth. Because of his beliefs, Belafonte drew unwarranted invasions by the FBI into both his personal life and career, which led to years of struggle. But an indomitable sense of optimism motivates his path even today as he continues to ask, at 82, "What do we do now?" His example may very well inspire you to action. (From Sundance.org)
Awards
2011: Sundance Film Festival: Nominated for Grand Jury Prize - Documentary
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Sing Your Song
2011
Susanne Rostock
6.5
(35)
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