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Seven Songs for Malcolm X
Produced by the Black Audio Film Collective
A Film by John Akomfrah
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An homage to the inspirational African-American civil rights leader, SEVEN SONGS FOR MALCOLM X collects testimonies, eyewitness accounts and dramatic reenactments to tell the life, legacy, loves, and losses of Malcolm X.

Featuring interviews with Malcolm's widow Betty Shabazz, Spike Lee, and many other, SEVEN SONGS looks for the meaning behind the resurgence of interest in the man whose X always stood for the unknown.

"[SEVEN SONGS FOR MALCOLM X] combines riveting footage of the man himself, extracts from his writing, recollections of his family, friends and fellow activists, with [brief] staged tableaux. It's all here: Malcolm X's charisma, the struggle to clarify his beliefs, and the context in which they evolved... an engrossing portrait."—Geoff Ellis, Time Out (London)

Best Feature Length Documentary, 1994 Image D'Ailleurs (Paris)
Certificate of Merit, 1994 San Francisco Film Festival
Best Historical Documentary & Audience Special Merit Awards Winner, 1993 National Black Programming Consortium
Best Use of Archival Footage in a Documentary, 1993 Chicago Film Festival
  

52 minutes / color
Release Date: 1995
Copyright Date: 1993
Sale: $390

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Subject areas:
African-Americans, American Studies, Biographies, Civil Rights, History (U.S.)

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