Amazing Grace (2019)

NAME OF FILM: AMAZING GRACE

DIRECTOR(S): Sydney Pollack, Alan Elliott

STARRING: Aretha Franklin, Reverand James Cleveland, Southern California Community Choir

GENRE: Documentary Film

SYNOPSIS: Concert footage from 1972 of Aretha Franklin performing songs from the best-selling gospel album at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles.

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