Birth of a Movement
About Birth of a Movement
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Birth of a Movement is a 2017 documentary film directed by Bestor Cram and Susan Gray.
Danny Glover appears as Narrator (voice), Spike Lee as Self, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as Self, and Reginald Hudlin as Self. At 57 minutes long, it arrived in February 2017.
The screenplay is by Dick Lehr and Kwyn Bader. In the United States it streams on PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel.