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The Middle Passage |  | Director: Guy Deslauriers
Actors: Djimon Hounsou, Maka Kotto
Studio: HBO Home Video
Category: DVD
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Seller: vtcollectibles
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 56042
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 76 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 91895
ISBN: 0783120494
UPC: 026359189524
EAN: 9780783120492
ASIN: B00007M5KQ
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Release Date: February 4, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| | It was the route between Africa and the New World that carried slaves to exchange for sugar and tobacco. It was the sea that carried a human cargo, a resting place for thousands who would not survive the journey. It was called THE MIDDLE PASSAGE.Running Time: 76 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR Age: 026359189524 UPC: 026359189524 Manufacturer No: |
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It was the route between Africa and the New World that carried slaves to exchange for sugar and tobacco. It was the sea that carried a human cargo a resting place for thousands who would not survive the journey. It was called THE MIDDLE PASSAGE.Running Time: 76 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 026359189524
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The first image seen in The Middle Passage is a spotless tropical beach. But this is paradise lost, and most of the remainder of this poetically harrowing feature is spent on a slave ship bound from the African coast to the New World. The purpose of Martinique-born director Guy Deslauriers is not to tell a story--there is no dialogue--but to impressionistically capture the horror of the "middle passage," the trans-Atlantic journey in human cargo. As the images of death and disease move by, they are augmented by narration spoken by an African--perhaps his voice is every slave's--on board. The fascinating narration, adapted by the novelist Walter Mosley (from the original French), is spoken in the hauntingly musical cadences of Djimon Hounsou (Amistad), and brings home the spiritual ruin of people separated from land and ancestors. This is a film not only of horror, but of sorrow. --Robert Horton
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 The Middle Passage May 1, 2009
A. Bowens (New York, NY USA)
Received in a timely manner and in good condition. Great movie to understand the horrors of slavery.
The Middle Passage August 26, 2008
APL (CT, USA)
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.
the greatest genocide of all - vividly brought to life July 14, 2007
J. Powell (United Kingdom)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
The Middle Passage May 6, 2007
Desiree M. Evans (VA USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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
OUTSTANDING!Everyone shares the blame for this mess!! March 12, 2007
KerrLines (Baltimore,MD)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Everyone is to blame for the holocaust of millions of innocent people in the slave trade;such is the sad and sorry conclusion eloquently reached in this poetic rumination by one African manslave who endured the betrayal of HIS OWN PEOPLE into the hands of greedy Europeans who carried him and fellow Africans to The Americas.The slave route was known as The Middle Passge.What this particular man notes that what is worse?-the treatment he received by the slaveship seamen, or the abduction and genocide that he experienced at the hands of his fellow Africans? On a 120+ days voyage in deplorable conditions aboard a French Vessel, this one man speaks for the 600+ souls with him and the untold millions before and after him.MOVING,POIGNENT and MAGNIFICENTLY done by HBO and narrated by Djimon Hounsou,who was the Golden Globe nominated actor for his role as Cinque in AMISTAD.This narrative film was written by Walter Mosely of "The Devil in the Blue Dress" fame.Excellent companion films would be the current AMAZING GRACE,A RESPECTABLE TRADE,AMISTAD,ROOTS and AMISTAD:The Documentary.
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