Film Night – Amazing Grace
Join us for the Great Elm Film Night showing Amazing Grace with star studded cast Benedict Cumberbatch | Romola Garai | Albert Finney | Michael Gambon | Rufus Sewell | Ciaran Hinds | Nicholas Farrell | Toby Jones
Amazing Grace is a 2006 biographical drama film directed by Michael Apted, about the abolitionist campaign against the slave trade in the British Empire, led by William Wilberforce, who was responsible for steering anti-slave trade legislation through the British parliament.
The title is a reference to the 1772 hymn “Amazing Grace”. The film also recounts the experiences of John Newton as a captain of slave ships and subsequent Christian conversion, which inspired his writing of the poem later used in the hymn. Newton is portrayed as a major influence on Wilberforce and the abolition movement.
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