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Title Amazing grace / Bristol Bay Productions presents ; in association with Ingenious Film Partners ; produced by Edward Pressman ... [and others] ; written by Steven Knight ; directed by Michael Apted.

Publication Info. Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2007]
©2007

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 Moore Video  PN1995.9.B55 A43956 2007    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Edition Widescreen format (1.85:1).
Description 1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
surround
Dolby digital 5.1
video file
DVD video
region 1
System Details DVD; region 1; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Cast Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Ciaran Hinds, Rufus Sewell, Youssou N'Dour, Benedict Cumberbatch, Nicholas Farrell, Stephen Campbell Moore, Toby Jones, Bill Paterson, Michael Gambon, Albert Finney.
Credits Director of photography, Remi Adefarasin ; editor, Rick Shaine ; music by David Arnold.
Note Originally produced as a motion picture in 2006.
Special features: optional audio commentary with Apted & Gruffudd; "How sweet the sound : the story of 'Amazing grace'" featurette (28 min.); "Finding freedom : a tour of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center" featurette, with modern-day abolitionist Zach Hunter (7 min.); music video ("Amazing grace" by Chris Tomlin, 4 min.); DVD-ROM features.
Audience MPAA rating: PG; for thematic material involving slavery, and some mild language.
Summary A biography of British legislator William Wilberforce, who led a decades-long movement to end the British slave trade.
Awards Heartland Film Festival, 2007: Truly Moving Sound Award - Truly Moving Picture.
Contents England, 1797 -- Entirely unmarried -- Yorkshire Terrier -- Raising the stakes -- Planting the impossible -- With his own eyes -- 20,000 ghosts -- Chosen -- Something to disagree on -- A day like no other -- First step -- Smell of death -- Voice of the people -- Two pistols -- Out of the bottle -- Different times -- After night comes day -- But now I'm found -- Confession -- A new strategy -- Blindsided -- An open door -- It is no more -- The pipers.
Language In English; with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.
Closed-captioned.
Subject Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833 -- Drama.
Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Abolitionists -- Great Britain -- Drama.
Abolitionists.
Great Britain.
Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- Drama.
Antislavery movements.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820 -- Drama.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1760-1820
Genre/Form Films for the hearing impaired.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Subject Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Biographical films.
Biographical films.
Feature films.
Feature films.
Biographical -- Feature.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Drama.
Fiction.
Fiction.
Added Author Pressman, Edward R., producer.
Knight, Steven, 1959- screenwriter.
Apted, Michael, director.
Gruffudd, Ioan, actor.
Garai, Romola, 1982- actor.
Hinds, Ciarán, 1953- actor.
Sewell, Rufus, 1967- actor.
N'Dour, Youssou, actor.
Cumberbatch, Benedict, 1976- actor.
Farrell, Nicholas, actor.
Moore, Stephen Campbell, actor.
Jones, Toby, 1966- actor.
Paterson, Bill, 1945- actor.
Gambon, Michael, actor.
Finney, Albert, 1936-2019, actor.
Adefarasin, Remi, cinematographer.
Shaine, Rick, film editor.
Arnold, David, 1962- composer.
Bristol Bay Productions (Firm)
Ingenious Film Partners (Firm)
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.
Added Title Amazing grace (Motion picture : 2006) https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007050394
Standard No. 024543444930 50
024543444978
Music No. 2244492 Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
2244497 Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment