Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

1985
5.5| 1h53m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 25 February 1985 Released
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Country: United States of America
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At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia. White plantation owners fled, and the 10,000 blacks who lived there, almost all of whom were slaves, were freed in the first test of President Abraham Lincoln's dream of emancipation. Charlotte Forten, a 21-year-old educated black woman, helped the freed slaves to begin to build a new society. That experience forms the plot of this drama, based on Charlotte Forten's journals, which was telecast on "American Playhouse."

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Barry Crane

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Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.