Freedom Riders (2010)

Film details

Featuring

Stanley Nelson John Lewis Genevieve Houghton
Director

Stanley Nelson
Country

USA
Year

2010
Genre

Documentary
Type

Film
Category

Non Fiction

Synopsis

Documentary about the Freedom Riders, a group of more than 400 black and white Americans, which risked their lives for simply traveling together on buses and trains in their journey through the Deep South from May until November 1961, deliberately violating Jim Crow laws.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Narrator
    
    Stanley Nelson
  - on-screen participant
    
    John Lewis
  - on-screen participant
    
    Genevieve Houghton
  - on-screen participant
    
    Mae Frances Moultrie
  - on-screen participant
    
    Jerry Ivor Moore
  - on-screen participant
    
    Raymond Arsenault
  - on-screen participant
    
    Diane Nash
  - on-screen participant
    
    Charles Person
  - on-screen participant
    
    John Seigenthaler
  - on-screen participant
    
    John Patterson
  - on-screen participant
    
    Julian Bond
  - on-screen participant
    
    Jim Zwerg
  - on-screen participant
    
    Catherine Burks-Brooks
Credits
- Direction:
  - Directed by
    
    Stanley Nelson
  Production:
  - A Firelight Media production
    
    Firelight Media
  - For
    
    The American Experience
  - American Experience is a production of
    
    WGBH (Boston)
  - Exec Producer (for American Experience)
    
    Mark Samels
  - Produced by
    
    Stanley Nelson
  - Produced by
    
    Laurens Grant
  - Archival Producer
    
    Lewanne Jones
  - Series Producer
    
    Sharon Grimberg
  - Associate Producer
    
    Stacey Holman
  Writing:
  - Written by
    
    Stanley Nelson
  - Based in part on the book by
    
    Raymond Arsenault
  Photography:
  - Director of Photography
    
    Robert Shepard
  Editing:
  - Edited by
    
    Lewis Erskine
  - Edited by
    
    Aljernon Tunsil
  Music:
  - Composer
    
    Tom Phillips
  - Music Supervisor
    
    Rena Kosersky
  Sound:
  - Sound Designer
    
    Margaret Crimons