I Heard It Through the Grapevine

I Heard It Through the Grapevine — Plot

Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham and Atlanta; to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe; and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post–Civil Rights America, wondering “what happened to the children” and those 'who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road'.

• Release date
• March 3, 1982
• Runtime
• 92 min
• Genres
• Documentary, History
• Director
• Pat Hartley

I Heard It Through the Grapevine — Cast

James Baldwin

D

David Baldwin

C

Chinua Achebe Self Amiri Baraka Self

S

Sterling Brown Self

D

David Dennis Self

H

Hoyt Fuller Self

O

Oretha Castle Haley Self