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Martin Luther King Jr. - I Have a Dream
Starring: Martin Luther King Jr. Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: MPI Home Video Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 11, 2005 Running Time: 60 minutes Theatrical Release Date: 1986
Description: "I have a dream today." On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King spoke these words as he addressed a crowd of more than 200,000 civil rights protesters gathered at The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Two months earlier, President John Kennedy had sent a civil rights bill to Congress, but it was struck down. Although Kennedy was concerned about the possibility of widespread violence during this protest, he realized he was powerless to stop it and embraced the movement instead. Known as the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," the country expected to hear King deliver strong words to his opponents. Instead, his "I Have a Dream" speech was one of heartfelt passion and poetic eloquence that still echoes in our memory.
Amazon.com: One of the greatest and most memorable moments in the civil rights movement occurred when 200,000 people marched on Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. Not only was the gathering of so many united people extraordinary, but that day Martin Luther King Jr. stood before the marchers and delivered his most eloquent and inspiring speech. This video offers the "I Have a Dream" speech in its entirety, as well as footage of the opposition the protesters faced, such as the fire hoses the police in Alabama used to disperse the crowds. The narrator explains that the hoses shot 700 pounds of pressure, enough to strip the bark off a tree. However, the grimness of this era is not the only focus in this video. Dr. King had so much hope and faith in the success of the civil rights movement, and the greatest demonstration of this is in the famous speech. He uses modern metaphors and poetry to get his message out clearly, as when he describes the capitol as having given blacks a check marked "insufficient funds," but he reminds us that they will refuse to believe the bank of justice is bankrupt, that they will cash their check for riches of freedom and security of justice. Throughout the speech he emphasizes his mission: nonviolence as a method of overcoming ("Soul force against militant force") and the importance of walking together as a unified group, and never walking alone. Although the video ends with his death, it still leaves the viewer feeling uplifted with Robert Kennedy's memorial address, pleading with Americans to hold on to Dr. King's views and adopt them as their own. A concise video with one of the greatest speeches of our time. --Samantha Allen Storey
MLK Jnr. I have a dream Its a very good movie,clear and memoriable; however;it was just too short and I had expectated a longer version, rather than just short clips.
Martin Luther King Jr. - I Have a Dream I felt short changed, expected all the events that lead up to the monumental speech, including Dr. King's speech that day. It's obvious the distributors of this video just wanted to make money. They really should be ashamed of themselves. Our children lose on this one.
If you are looking for the speech, then here it is! I was looking for just the speech and found it. While the first few minutes are documentary style, it then moves into the speech and from what I understand it is the complete speech. We played it on MLK Day and it really moved a lot of people (again).
The Speech that Changed America Set amidst the backdrop of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. gave the speech that changed the social dynamic of America. I Have A Dream, he repeated between refrains of equality and social justice. From that speech erupted a movement - his dream become their dream and now it's our dream and closer to reality than ever before.
I've heard the speech before, and I've read the speech, but seeing it in its setting was a challenge to our basic institutions. It was a challenge to Lincoln himself. A challenge in oration, a challenge in tone, and a challenge to change America more
Peter Jennings narrates the dvd and it incorporates raw footage from marches and protests and concludes with a tribute to the man, murdered for his beliefs. Three hundred thousand people stood before Dr. King that Summer day in 1963 but that's only a fraction of a fraction of those who have been touched by his powerful cadence. It's both poetry and sermon. I'm better for having watched it.
- CV Rick, February 2008
Powerful, moving, inspiring, magical We are so lucky to have this magnificent speech and orator, perhaps one of the greatest of all time - taped and recorded live in a seminal moment in our history and in a location that resonates so much meaning. This is a speech that is so magical it can be listened to and watched over and over again - never loosing its magic and yet is now seen so rarely. I purchased it to screen to an undergraduate college class in Architecture - to demonstrate the power of location. Even these students who are used to fast action spectacle were moved by its power. As many people in our country today, may of them knew only a short clip from Martin Luther King's magnificent speech and never knew how rich and wonderful it is in its entirety with the powerful video recording of the amazing number of people who gathered for the momentous event in our Nation's Capital in front with a back drop of the Lincoln Memorial.
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