Our Friend Martin
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Movie Review: A VERY WELL DONE, CHILD(AND ADULT)FRIENDLY MOVIE!
Summary: 5 Stars
This story Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement is alive, fresh, informative as well as entertaining. It succeeds in telling his story truthfully without a lot of sugarcoat or dogma, as most King's storys are sometimes told. The mixture of actual live footage and animation is very effective. This video is a definate must have!Movie Review: A VERY WELL DONE, CHILD(AND ADULT)FRIENDLY MOVIE!
Summary: 5 Stars
This story Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement is alive, fresh, informative as well as entertaining. It succeeds in telling his story truthfully without a lot of sugarcoat or dogma, as most King's storys are sometimes told. The mixture of actual live footage and animation is very effective. This video is a definate must have!Movie Review: An great adventure in history!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I work in the Children's Church department in my church, and I just showed this film to a group of 20 children, ages 6-11, and they were glued to their seats!!! I must admit with such a wide age span it's not always easy to keep everyone's attention. I believe the combination of animation and real-life footage is what held everyone's attention, including mine! I can't say enough about this movie, except that I recommend it to everyone no matter what age.Movie Review: A great teaching tool
Summary: 5 Stars
I just finished showing this film to my second graders. Not only did it hold their attention, but they learned quite a bit about Martin Luther King Jr. and America as it once was. The animated format combined with real life footage was extremely effective and captured my younger viewer's attention. Having characters that spoke the kid's "lingo" helped make this a film children of today can relate to. We used this video as a springboard to discuss Dr. King and his accomplishments. I highly recommend this video to any parent or teacher.Movie Review: Mixes cartoons and real footage to teach history!
Summary: 5 Stars
This kid-focused video seeks to teach viewers about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King. It's attention-grabbing format combines a cartoon story about 4 sixth graders who travel back in time to meet Dr. King at various points in his life, with genuine footage of his speeches and various marches. The characters' voices are provided by such famous celebrities as Whoopie Goldberg, James Earl Jones and Susan Saranden. The plot is fast pace, and hooks viewers in through it's clever time travel premise, while getting its message across. Certainly, the most gripping segment of the video occurs when the main characters try to prevent Dr. King from being assassinated, by bringing him forward in time. Viewers are suddenly thrown into a world untouched by King's dreams of racial equality, and the gross differences between our lives with and without King's accomplishments are starkly revealed. This is definitely an exceptional video.