Unchained Memories
by Ed Bell, Thomas Lennon
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Actor: Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Michael Boatman, Roscoe Lee Browne, Whoopi GoldbergDirector: Ed Bell, Thomas Lennon
Brand: HBO Home Video
Producer: Beth Harrison
Producer: Donna Brown Guillaume
Producer: Jacqueline Glover
Producer: Juliet Weber
Producer: Lana Garland
Writer: Mark Jonathan Harris
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 75 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 92015
Studio: HBO Home Video
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- When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors were transcribed and preserved by the Library of Congress. These first-person anecdotes, ranging from the brutal to the bittersweet, have been brought to vivid life in this unique HBO documentary special, featuring the on-camera voices of over a dozen t
DVD Reviews of Unchained Memories
DVD Review: This disappointed me...
Summary: 2 Stars
This disappointed me..., March 21, 2006
Reviewer: Thom (Polk County, Florida) - See all my reviews
If this film centered on the actual slaves, rather than the ACTORS making narration, it would have been a very powerful documentary. While reading it should have focused on the drawings, and dipictions. When I saw a great deal of the YOUNG actors on a chair reciting prose-to me it seemed more to accentuate the actors rather than what the text was saying.
Just the fact that slavery existed under the United States Constitution shows how law can be manipulated in any way those in power want it to be and the goverment can do whatever they want and get away with it. Remember it was legal only 200 years ago, and suppression and rediculous repression of human beings based on race existed even in the 1970's. And it was legal back then.
Based on the horrible adverse treatment of slaves, it showed the majority of southern businessmen were very POOR businessmen. THink about it--they spent HUGE--and I mean HUGE quantities--of money ($800 or $1000 was a vast fortune back in the 1800's) only to beat and starve and work them to death like, they are not protecting their investments. You would think common sense dictates if one spent vast fortunes, they would want to CARE for their investment (feed them, clothe them adequately, gave them proper shelter, etc). No, these businessmen starved and tortured their investments. I guess they had money to throw away. This lack of business sense probably is a reason why the south lost.
The slave trade was a big business back then. Huge quantities of slaves were NOT captured in Africa, but were sold to the white slave traders by their own people. And yes Africans kept slaves too--blacks enslaved blacks.
Interesting to note even Abraham Lincoln cared less about the existance of slavery but wrote the Emancipation Proclamation only as a political ploy to not get European nations involved, and that the Civil war was, in reality, only to keep the north and south united and not form a separate government.
Back to the documentary-yes it disappointed me. I didn't know what showing the actors sitting and reciting proved. The actor's faces should not have been shown at all. It distracted from the real theme of memories of slavery. These actors should have been faceless and not seen. Unless they wanted to play dipictions rather than just SIT and READ.
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