Amazing Grace

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the recording of Aretha Franklin's best-selling album finally sees the light of day more than four decades after the original footage was shot.

Cast

Aretha Franklin

as Self (archive footage)

James Cleveland

as Self (archive footage)

C.L. Franklin

as Self (archive footage)

Bernard "Pretty" Purdie

as Self (archive footage)

Chuck Rainey

as Self (archive footage)

Clara Ward

as Self (archive footage)

Mick Jagger

as Self (archive footage)

Sydney Pollack

as Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)

Charlie Watts

as Self (archive footage)

Alexander Hamilton

as Self (archive footage)

Reviews

SWITCH.

‘Amazing Grace’ is a document and an exhalation to the ecstasy of music, how it can affect the body and soul of those who create it and those who receive it. This raw and beautiful film goes above and beyond the concert film form, offering a window into a time past, a people in need and an artist at...

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