Video: Freedom Song

Herald rating: * * *

Running time: 112 mins

Rental: Today

Review: Ewan McDonald

A Change Is Gonna Come, by Sam Cooke, now that's a freedom song.

And this is a better than average memoir of the 60s' American civil rights struggle, told from a black viewpoint by Danny Glover, with Vondie Curtis Hall and the gloriously monickered Vicellous Reon Shannon, set in smalltown Mississippi in 1961 and based on first-hand accounts from activists who demanded to be allowed to read books in libraries, buy sandwiches at the lunchbar, or vote.