Film

We Shall Overcome

7.0198958mDocumentary

Director: Jim Brown
Year: 1989

A documentary on the iconic song "We Shall Overcome" and its important legacy in the American Civil Rights movement, echoing all over the world as a recognizable song of struggle against social injustices. Singers and activists talk about its origins, used during a workers strike in the mid 1940's, and how the lyrics and its significance slightly changed in the next decades.

Top cast

Harry Belafonte

Self - Narrator

Joan Baez

Self

Directed by

Jim Brown

Produced by

Ginger Brown, Jim Brown, Harold Leventhal, George C. Stoney