For Love of Liberty
Melee Entertainment (2010)
Documentary
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4 hr 0 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Halle Berry
Colin Powell
Morgan Freeman
Bill Cosby
John Travolta
Danny Glover
Susan Sarandon
D.L. Hughley
Walter Cronkite
Director
Frank Martin

At the beginning of "For Love of Liberty," an onscreen title card bears a simple yet potent statement: "Let it be said that the Negro soldier did his duty under the flag, whether that flag protected him or not."

Thus begins the four-hour journey of Frank Martin's milestone documentary, covering every U.S. military conflict, from the Revolutionary War to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Through historical documents, letters, diaries, paintings, photographs, telegrams, re-enactments and dramatizations, Hollywood lends its voices to the stories and anecdotes of the African-American men and women of the U.S. armed services. Among the voiceover talent: Morgan Freeman, Sam Elliott, Kris Kristofferson, Ruby Dee, Robert Duvall and James Garner.

The history lesson imparted here is brutal and eye-opening, starting with the very first African-American war casualty: Crispus Attucks in 1770, an escaped slave who was shot during the Boston Massacre, among the outbreaks leading to the Revolutionary War. We learn of the colonial Minutemen, black and white enlistees who fought side by side for the foundling nation's independence, even though blacks would not share the same freedoms in the aftermath.

We learn, too, of the earliest rumblings of racism that declared blacks were too cowardly to serve in the colonial forces, a danger to their masters if given weapons -- all this from Gen. George Washington's dispatches.
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