An amazing story of history and freedom

Rating: 10/10 (16 February 2008)

While theatergoers in 1997 were being amazed by special effects on another ship, this magnificent story given to us by the master director Steven Spielberg gives us the true story of our country and what it means to be American.
We are not free as long as one of us is in chains. As John Quincy Adams (Anthony Hopkins) so eloquently put it, "...what are we to do with that embarrassing, annoying document, The Declaration of Independence? What of its conceits? "All men created equal," "inalienable rights," "life, liberty," and so on and so forth?" The Civil War was, indeed, the last battle of The American Revolution.
What a cast! You can search for Fool's Gold or you can watch Matthew McConaughey in her greatest performance as the lawyer who risked it all.
Djimon Hounsou may Never Back Down this year, as he certainly didn't in this film.
Morgan Freeman certainly knows about "Freedom: A History of Us" and he helped the Africans find theirs.
One of the very best films I have ever seen.