In Charleston Mississippi, the local high school still has separate prom dances for their seniors--one for black students and one for white students. Morgan Freeman, a Charleston resident, makes the s...( read more
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DVD Release Date: December 15, 2009
Stats: 42 reviews
This was the final film I saw at the Cleveland International Film Fest. It's a good documentary. It doesn't have the best video quality throughout, since it is a lot of home video diary footage from the high school students involved, but because of the subject, the message of t...( read more)
I believe Morgan did a wonderful thing by helping to combine the proms & school as a whole...
This was incredible. I cant beleive This was only a couple of years in the making. What a shame on our world. But amazing strength of Mr Freeman and the students. Terrific.
This movie was such a shock to me because I, and I'm sure many others, had no idea that something like this could still be going on. It is evident that racism still exists in our world and it probably, unfortunately, will always exist. But to still have a segregated prom in ithe ...( read more)
Excellent documentary, the children were very comfortable in front of the camera.
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