I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Overview

Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham and Atlanta; to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe; and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post–Civil Rights America, wondering “what happened to the children” and those 'who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road'.

Directed by Pat Hartley, Dick Fontaine

Top cast

James Baldwin

D

David Baldwin

C

Chinua Achebe

Self

Amiri Baraka

Self

S

Sterling Brown

Self

D

David Dennis

Self

H

Hoyt Fuller

Self

O

Oretha Castle Haley

Self

L

Lonnie King

Self

A

Amanda Bowens Perdew

Self

C

Charles Sherrod

Self

Fred Lee Shuttlesworth

Self

H

Hosea Williams

Self

Details