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Claim the Sky: We Shall Overcome (2024)
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Claim the Sky: We Shall Overcome (2024)

Documentary

In a 2014 Atlantic Magazine article titled "The Big Question," music industry mogul Clive Davis named the global protest anthem "We Shall Overcome" "THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SONG OF ALL TIME," and the US Library of Congress named We Shall ...See moreIn a 2014 Atlantic Magazine article titled "The Big Question," music industry mogul Clive Davis named the global protest anthem "We Shall Overcome" "THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SONG OF ALL TIME," and the US Library of Congress named We Shall Overcome "The most powerful song of the twentieth century." The world, however, knows virtually nothing of the song's true, hidden history. In 2016, the We Shall Overcome Foundation, led by music producer and documentary filmmaker Isaias Gamboa, filed a landmark class action lawsuit in the Southern District of New York. The lawsuit presented documents and other evidence unearthed by Gamboa that Pete Seeger and others and his powerful music publishing company committed fraud on the copyright office when they filed 1960 and 1963 copyrights for We Shall Overcome with the US Copyright Office. In 2018, WSOF won its case and liberated We Shall Overcome from 60 years of unlawful control and exploitation and forever into the public domain. This four-part documentary sets the historical record straight as it follows writer/director Isaias Gamboa on an unexpected ten-year journey that leads him to the discovery of African American hymn writer Louise Shropshire (a close friend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), folk-music icon Pete Seeger, the FBI, and a landmark lawsuit that makes the front page of the New York Times and exposes Pete Seeger, his powerful associates, and their true motives for concealing the true history We Shall Overcome for more than 60 years. Written by Isaias Gamboa See less

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33 cast members

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Ralph Abernathy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	In Remembrance of Martin (1986)
Judith Baenen Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	Claim the Sky: We Shall Overcome (2024)
Pat Boone Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
Mel Carter Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	Claim the Sky: We Shall Overcome (2024)
Adrian Cunningham Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	Claim the Sky: We Shall Overcome (2024)
Jetro Da Silva Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	Claim the Sky: We Shall Overcome (2024)
Betty Rosemond Daniels Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	Claim the Sky: We Shall Overcome (2024)
Lee Daniels Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	Precious (II) (2009)
Bill Dern Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	Unsung (2008)
Isaias Gamboa Self Self See fewer	Claim the Sky: We Shall Overcome (2024)
Bobby Grevious Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	Claim the Sky: We Shall Overcome (2024)
Stephen Guokas Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	Claim the Sky: We Shall Overcome (2024)
Joycelle Harris Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	Claim the Sky: We Shall Overcome (2024)
Harold K. Horne Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	Claim the Sky: We Shall Overcome (2024)
Mahalia Jackson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Mississippi Burning (1988)
Coretta Scott King Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Nationtime (1972)
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Mark C. Rifkin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
John Morris Russell Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	The Firebird (2012)
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Simone Sheffield Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
Betty Shropshire Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	Claim the Sky: We Shall Overcome (2024)
Robert A. Goins Shropshire Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	Leaving You for My Husband
Fred Shuttlesworth Jr. Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	Claim the Sky: We Shall Overcome (2024)
Fred Lee Shuttlesworth Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982)
Patricia Shuttlesworth Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	Claim the Sky: We Shall Overcome (2024)
Edgar Smith Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	Claim the Sky: We Shall Overcome (2024)
Maureen Smith Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	Claim the Sky: We Shall Overcome (2024)
Otis Williams Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	Goodfellas (1990)
Pamela Oas Williams Self (Interviewee) Self (Interviewee) See fewer	The Butler (I) (2013)
Oprah Winfrey Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986)