People Speak, The
A&E (2009)
Documentary, History
In Collection
#10007
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733961211948
  6.9
1 hr 53 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Matt Damon Himself
Viggo Mortensen Himself
Josh Brolin Himself
Morgan Freeman Himself
Sean Penn Himself
Rosario Dawson Herself
Marisa Tomei
Don Cheadle
Kerry Washington
Sandra Oh
Danny Glover
Benjamin Bratt
Michael Ealy
Q'orianka Kilcher
Director
Anthony Arnove, Chris Moore
Chris Moore
Howard Zinn

A look at America's struggles with war, class, race and women's rights. based on Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."

The People Speak is a beautiful and moving film inspired by Howard Zinn's books A People's History of the United States - first published in 1980 and one of the bestselling history books in the United States - and Voices of a People's History of the United States, the primary-source companion to A People's History of the United States, edited with Anthony Arnove.

The film features the actual words (in letters, songs, poems, speeches, and manifestoes) of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past - and present - including Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Bob Dylan, Langston Hughes, Chief Joseph, Muhammad Ali, and unknown veterans, union workers, abolitionists, and many others never featured in high school textbooks. These dramatic moments from our history are brought to life by a group of remarkable musicians and actors.

Like Howard Zinn's work as a whole, The People Speak celebrates the extraordinary possibilities for creating social change that ordinary people have realized throughout the course of our nation's rich but often ignored history of dissent and protest.
Edition Details
Release Date 2/23/2010
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Audio Tracks Stereo [English]
No. of Disks/Tapes 1