Frederick Douglass Film Analysis

Register to read the introduction… The United States, initially did not want to bring blacks with them to combat, but when the Emancipation Proclamation stated that they were allowed to enlist to help win the war, people were both excited and upset. One person who was very much excited to take part in the war was non other than Frederick Douglass. Douglass then becomes a recruiting officer and speaks to many different African American people to get them to join in the war. After all those lectures and speaking his heart out about his country, there were 200,000 black men who joined the war. A great quote that was used in the film was, “Douglass insisted that what this war had been about was not just a fight between men of valor, but a struggle to establish, as he once said, a nation that could live up to its creeds.” Soon after the war, Douglass' wife, Anna Murray, passed away. In the film it states that he grieved terribly, but once he pulled himself …show more content…
Craig Haffner is the brilliant director of the film, Frederick Douglass-From Slave to Abolitionist. He gave a new purpose to what would have been a boring history lecture. Its no wonder that Haffner was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-fiction series. In this film he put together many different kinds of scholars to speak about the life of Frederick Douglass in a clean chronological order. Through this we know that all the important facts about Douglass' life was not only acknowledged but pronounced. Haffner specializes in many bibliographical films and therefore his experience has grown to show the readers a mature leveled film of Douglass' life and successes. There were some parts of Frederick Douglass' life that were hidden from view in the film and other less meaningful events that were brought to light which aided to the biased view of the