THE PEOPLE SPEAK: THE HOWARD ZINN COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 2009
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: DEMOCRACY IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT; ; THE PEOPLE SPEAK is a beautiful and moving film inspired by Howard Zinn's books A People's History of the United States -- first published in 1980 and one of the best-selling history books in the United States -- and Voices of a People's History of the United States, the primary-souce companion to A People's History of the United States, edited by Anthiny Arnove.; ; The film features the actual words (in letters, songs, poems, speeches, and manifestos) of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past -- and present -- including Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Bob Dylan, Langston Hughes, Chief Joseph, Muhammad Ali, and unknown veterans, union workers, abolitionists, and many others never featured in high school textbooks. These dramatic moments from our history are brought to life by a group of remarkable musicians and actors.; ; Like Howard Zinn's work as a whole, THE PEOPLE SPEAK celebrates the extraordinary possibilities for creating social change that ordinary people have realized throughout the course of our nation's rich but often ignored history of dissent and protest.
• Cast: Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman, Viggo Mortensen, Josh Brolin, Marisa Tomei, Rosario Dawson, Sean Penn, Casey Affleck, Don Cheadle, Sandra Oh, Danny Glover, Kerry Washington, Benjamin Bratt, David Strathairn, Michael Ealy, Pink, Jasmine Guy, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Harris Yulin, Eddie Vedder, Reg E. Cathey, Christina Kirk, John Legend, Kathleen Chalfant, Taj Mahal, Howard Zinn, Lupe Fiasco, Darryl McDaniels, Jackson Brown, Michael O'Malley, Staceyann Chin, Martín Espada
• Director: Anthony Arnove, Chris Moore, Howard Zinn
• Runtime: 1:53
• Media Format: movie