Amazing Grace

The Story

The never-before-seen music documentary capturing Queen of Soul ARETHA FRANKLIN, as she records the most successful gospel album of all time, AMAZING GRACE with James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir. Recorded at The New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972. AMAZING GRACE is crafted from never-before-seen footage that captures an elegiac moment in American musical history whilst saluting the get-up-on-your-feet gospel heritage that transformed American music in the 1960s.

Rating

G

Duration

90 min

Cast

Sydney Pollack, Mick Jagger, Aretha Franklin, Reverand James Cleveland, C.L. Franklin, Bernard Purdie, Chuck Rainey, The Southern California Community Choir

Director

Sydney Pollack