Posted by
Joe Clark on Thursday, November 15, 2007 12:42:04 AM
FYI, any review I ever do for either a movie or a book will never be long, but rather straight to the point. In this case, I just watched, "Amazing Grace", just out on video. It's the true story about late 18th Century / early 19th Century British parlimentarian William Wilberforce who successfully led his approximately twenty year long campaign to end the slave trade throughout the British empire. And there's a little for everyone in this movie. It's an inspirational movie about perservering to do what is right, and both human & civil rights crusaders will be happy as will people who are religious (not that the two are mutually exclusive) because William Wilberforce was both of those wrapped up in one -- a deeply religious human & civil rights crusader. A truly heroic individual.
Plus, you'll get to find out who wrote the song, "Amazing Grace"...
Amazing Grace