The Middle Passage
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Movie Reviews of The Middle Passage
Movie Review: The Middle Passage
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is excellent! I am an Equal Opportunity Adviser, and this movie is a great visual aide in the classes that I am required to give. Not just that, it is a fantastic history lesson. I would strongly recommend viewing this movie if you have not already done so.
Desiree Evans
Movie Review: history
Summary: 5 Stars
this documentary is very painful
to watch it shows the most unpleasent
part of man cruelty savagery and
and disreaguard for human life
i have ever seen a historical
piece nothing written in history
about it
jamesjoe48@comcast.net
Movie Review: The Middle Passage
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent video for everyone to see. A big part of history has been omitted from the books and lessons. This video will help to fill in some of the gaps and give us some perspective on the world as it exists today.Movie Review: The Middle Passage
Summary: 5 Stars
Received in a timely manner and in good condition. Great movie to understand the horrors of slavery.
Movie Review: the greatest genocide of all - vividly brought to life
Summary: 4 Stars
This excellent film shows the true horror of slavery vivdly to life in excruciating detail. The subject of slavery is still rarely looked at in any detail by mainstream TV or Hollywood media and with a very good reason. The world wants to just forget the fact that literally millions died for the simple reason to make money for lazy white people who professed to be "Christian". The United States was built upon slave labor, but nobody wants to talk about it too much. Unlike the Jewish holocaust of the Second World War, slavery has been put aside and largely forgotten about. Yet the fact remains that as many, and possibly more people died during the middle passage as in the concentration camps like Auschwitz. The genocide inflicted had no concern or common decency for fellow humans, because the enslavers did not consider AFRICANS TO BE HUMAN!
This film is fairly short, just over an hour, but more than gets it's point across in that timespan. The lovely cinematography adds to the dark and brooding subject. Slaves are shown in the hold of the ship, sweating in the miserable dank darkness, infested with rats, near starving and treated with contempt and brutality. All of them are longing for home and terrified of their futures.
There is no dialogue at all between the actors, but the eloquent and powerful first-person narrative of a slave's emotional turmoil and descriptions of his experiences is read over the soundtrack throughout the movie.
It's a powerful and heartbreaking insight into just what slavery was and how it must have felt to be kidnapped and sold into slavery, and the degradation and horror of what awaited them. This is a very depressing movie but a realistic one. It was depressing, ugly and inhuman. Slavery was one of the low points in the entire history of mankind and the depths of man's inhumanity to fellow man should nver be forgotten...ever.
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