March 25, 2007 will mark the 200th anniversary of the passage of a bill outlawing the slave trade in Britain. A new film details the drama behind that victory. Amazing Grace is a story of idealism and ...

This year marks the 200th Anniversary of the British Parliament passing the act to abolish the slave trade. In response and memoriam of a deplorable past, many have found comfort and fellowship by ...

As Americans this week partly commemorated the birthday and political career of Abraham Lincoln, who signed the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery, British film director Michael Apted brings ...

On a dark night just outside London, a big, horse-drawn carriage made its way through a driving rainstorm. One of its occupants was a handsome young man named William Wilberforce. As the carriage made ...

“Amazing Grace,” a story of idealism, idealists and speaking truth to power, understands there is something inordinately moving and dramatic about a man who stands up for what is right and makes a ...

Michael Apted’s well-intentioned yet often pedantic “Amazing Grace” is a good — and important — story, not always well told. It’s a fact-based, historical drama about a hero whose name many of us may ...

Attention political junkies, history buffs, religious seekers and Anglophiles: Suppose there were a spiritual leader of seminal importance on the scaleof Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi and ...

LONDON—Great Britain passed a law. America fought a war. The international legacy of slavery is more complicated than two sentences, but the above words are a good summary of the amazing path ...

Meet the heart of William Wilberforce’s abolitionist movement. William Wilberforce and the Clapham Sect founded Sierra Leone, then tolerated a form of slavery there, a new book reveals. In Film ...

Addressing a new film focused on the traditional hymn “Amazing Grace,” in his weekly column, Denver’s Archbishop Charles Chaput pointed to the stories of profound conversation found within the movie ...

Michael Apted is one of several British filmmakers (along with Michael Winterbottom, John Boorman and Stephen Frears) whose artistic humanity could never be put into question. Directing such films as ...

"Amazing Grace" is a workmanlike costumer that distills Blighty's long battle for the abolition of slavery and the personalities behind landmark antislavery legislation into a tidy story of conscience ...