We Shall Overcome
- Media type
- Film
We Shall Overcome · We Shall Overcome · MOVIE
Documentary 1989
About this title
A documentary on the iconic song "We Shall Overcome" and its important legacy in the American Civil Rights movement, echoing all over the world as a recognizable song of struggle against social injustices. Singers and activists talk about its origins, used during a workers strike in the mid 1940's, and how the lyrics and its significance slightly changed in the next decades.