Behind the song you love is a story you will never forget.
Amazing Grace, based on the life of antislavery pioneer William Wilberforce, is directed by Michael Apted (The World is Not Enough, Coal Miner’s Daughter) from an original screenplay written by Academy Award nominee Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things).
Though as a young man Wilberforce is torn between politics and the church , he is inspired to action by John Newton, a penitent monk who is haunted by his past as a slave-ship captain. Wilberforce makes it his mission to end slavery in the British Empire, and, aided by a small band of radical thinkers and unlikely supporters, he annually presents a bill for abolition to Parliament. When the war with France generates a patriotism in the people that makes opposition to slavery seem seditious, Wilberforce becomes disillusioned, and he retires to his cousin’s house, physically ill and emotionally destroyed by his perceived failure. When he meets the beautiful and righteous Barbara Spooner, however, he gains new determination to pursue his dream of abolition.
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