Freedom Riders

The movie under consideration is headlined Freedom Riders. The filmmaker Stanley Nelson has produced it. The main and minor characters include Raymond Arsenault (author of the Freedom Riders), Genevieve Houghton (Freedom Rider), Gordon Carey (core staff), Derek Catsam (historian), John Lewis (Freedom Rider), Charles Person (Freedom Rider), Diane Nash (the student of the Fisk University) and others. The setting of the movie is the summertime of 1964, near to the Mississippi.

Plot Summary. The movie retells the story of the creation of the Mississippi Federal Democratic Party. In particular, it focuses on the stories of the 700 students who were the activists of the started to storm the Mississippi regions that were extremely segregated. Their initiatives touched the schools, public spaces, voting processes etc. The movement was extraordinary in its influence and magnitude. All these young idealists reveal their moments of glory in a series of the short interviews that totally reconstruct the events of the past. The story they retell is breathtaking and totally terrifying. The drama and suspense are extremely vivid in this piece of the movie industry. Even though the interviews of the participants and organizers are enriched with the insider details, the conversations with the observers give more gravity and output.

Opinion and recommendations. The movie is truly energizing and inspiring for change. It shows the outrageous fight against the stereotypes and inequality in the presumably free and equal society. The fighters had to destroy the myths and build a new reality. The documentary is definitely trustworthy as it is totally built on the evidence collected from the witnesses and participants of those events. The movie might be of the great interest for the historians, human rights activists, and the beginners of the mass movements for the release and for the rights in other country of the world.