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Amazing Grace (2006 film)

Index Amazing Grace (2006 film)

Amazing Grace is a 2006 British-American biographical drama film directed by Michael Apted, about the campaign against the slave trade in the British Empire, led by William Wilberforce, who was responsible for steering anti-slave trade legislation through the British parliament. [1]

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Albert Finney

Albert Finney (born 9 May 1936) is an English actor.

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Amazing Grace

"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, with words written by the English poet and Anglican clergyman John Newton (1725–1807).

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Amazing Grace (score)

Amazing Grace: Original Score from the Motion Picture is another soundtrack for the movie Amazing Grace starring Ioan Gruffudd, this soundtrack features an original score composed by David Arnold.

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Amazing Grace (soundtrack)

Amazing Grace: Music Inspired By the Motion Picture is a soundtrack for the movie Amazing Grace starring Ioan Gruffudd.

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Banastre Tarleton

Sir Banastre Tarleton, 1st Baronet, GCB (21 August 175415 January 1833) was a British soldier and politician.

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Barbara Wilberforce

Barbara Ann Wilberforce (née Spooner; 24 December 1777, Birches Green, Erdington, Warwickshire – 21 April 1847, The Vicarage, East Farleigh, Kent) was the spouse of abolitionist and MP William Wilberforce.

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Bath, Somerset

Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths.

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Beliefnet

Beliefnet is a lifestyle website providing feature editorial content around the topics of inspiration, spirituality, health, wellness, love and family, news and entertainment.

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Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976) is an English actor who has performed in film, television, theatre and radio.

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Berlin International Film Festival

The Berlin International Film Festival (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale, is a film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany.

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Bill Paterson (actor)

Bill Paterson (born 3 June 1945) is a Scottish actor and commentator, best known for playing the lead role in the BBC One paranormal, mystery drama Sea of Souls between 2004 and 2007.

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Biographical film

A biographical film, or biopic (abbreviation for biographical motion picture), is a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people.

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Born again

In some Christian movements, particularly in Evangelicalism, to be born again, or to experience the new birth, is a popular phrase referring to "spiritual rebirth", or a regeneration of the human spirit from the Holy Spirit, contrasted with physical birth.

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Box Office Mojo

Founded in 1999, Box Office Mojo tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, and publishes the data on its website.

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Bristol Bay Productions

Bristol Bay Productions is a film company (the sister company of Walden Media), which produces films based on the books and lives of famous and influential people.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Charles James Fox

Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and who was the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger.

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Chatham Historic Dockyard

Chatham Historic Dockyard is a maritime museum on part of the site of the former royal/naval dockyard at Chatham in Kent, South East England.

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Christopher Award

The Christopher Award (established 1949) is presented to the producers, directors, and writers of books, motion pictures and television specials that "affirm the highest values of the human spirit".

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Ciarán Hinds

Ciarán Hinds (born 9 February 1953) is an Irish film, television, and stage actor.

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Colitis

Colitis is an inflammation of the colon.

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David Arnold

David G. Arnold (born 23 January 1962) is a British film composer best known for scoring five James Bond films, Stargate (1994), Independence Day (1996), Godzilla (1998) and the television series Little Britain and Sherlock.

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David Hunt (actor)

David Hunt is an English actor, producer and director who has worked in both Britain and the United States.

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Drama (film and television)

In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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East India Docks

The East India Docks were a group of docks in Blackwall, east London, north-east of the Isle of Dogs.

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Edward R. Pressman

Edward R. Pressman (born April 11, 1943) is an American film producer and founder of the production company Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation.

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Evening Standard British Film Awards

The Evening Standard British Film Awards were established in 1973 by the British London area evening newspaper Evening Standard.

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Fabian strategy

The Fabian strategy is a military strategy where pitched battles and frontal assaults are avoided in favor of wearing down an opponent through a war of attrition and indirection.

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Flixster

Flixster was an American social movie site for discovering new movies, learning about movies, and meeting others with similar tastes in movies.

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French Revolutionary Wars

The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until 1802 and resulting from the French Revolution.

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Garsington

Garsington is a town and civil parish about southeast of Oxford in Oxfordshire.

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Georgie Glen

Georgie Glen (born 20 April 1956) is a Scottish actress, best known for her stage and television work.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Gloucester and Sharpness Canal

The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal or Gloucester and Berkeley Canal is a canal in the west of England, between Gloucester and Sharpness; for much of its length it runs close to the tidal River Severn, but cuts off a significant loop in the river, at a once-dangerous bend near Arlingham.

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Greenwich Hospital, London

Greenwich Hospital was a permanent home for retired sailors of the Royal Navy, which operated from 1692 to 1869.

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Hannah More

Hannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833) was an English religious writer and philanthropist, remembered as a poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects, and as a practical philanthropist.

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Heartland Film Festival

The Heartland Film Festival is a film festival held each October in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville

Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, PC, FRSE (28 April 1742, Edinburgh, Scotland – 28 May 1811, Edinburgh) was a Scottish advocate and Tory politician.

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Henry Thornton (reformer)

Henry Thornton (10 March 1760 – 16 January 1815) was an English economist, banker, philanthropist and parliamentarian.

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History of slavery

The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Humanitas Prize

The Humanitas Prize is an award for film and television writing intended to promote human dignity, meaning, and freedom.

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Hymn

A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification.

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Ingenious Media

Ingenious Media (styled as INGENIθUS) is a division of London-based Ingenious Capital Management Limited, also known as Ingenious.

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Ioan Gruffudd

Ioan Gruffudd (born 6 October 1973) is a Welsh actor.

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James Stephen (British politician)

James Stephen (30 June 1758 – 10 October 1832) was the principal English lawyer associated with the abolitionist movement.

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Jeremy Swift

Jeremy Paul Swift (born 27 June 1960) is an English actor.

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Johanna Lucretia

The Johanna Lucretia is a British tall ship and is an oak wooden two masted topsail schooner built at the Rhoos Shipyard, Ghent in Belgium in 1945.

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John Newton

John Newton (– 21 December 1807) was an English Anglican clergyman who served as a sailor in the Royal Navy for a period, and later as the captain of slave ships.

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Kaskelot (tall ship)

Kaskelot is a three-masted barque and one of the largest remaining wooden ships in commission.

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Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Laudanum

Laudanum is a tincture of opium containing approximately 10% powdered opium by weight (the equivalent of 1% morphine).

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List of films featuring slavery

Film has been the most influential medium in the presentation of the history of slavery to the general public.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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Low church

The term "low church" refers to churches which give relatively little emphasis to ritual, sacraments and the authority of clergy.

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.

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Michael Apted

Michael David Apted, (born 10 February 1941) is an English director, producer, writer and actor.

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Michael Gambon

Sir Michael John Gambon, (born 19 October 1940) is an Irish actor who has worked in theatre, television, and film.

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Minority government

A minority government, or minority cabinet or minority parliament, is a cabinet formed in a parliamentary system when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the parliament.

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Momentum Pictures

Momentum Pictures is a film distributor owned by Entertainment One.

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Movieguide Awards

The Movieguide Awards is an annual award ceremony for Christian and family-friendly entertainment held every year in Hollywood and broadcast on the ReelzChannel.

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Nicholas Day (actor)

Nicholas Patrick Day (born 16 October 1947 in Gillingham, Kent) is an English actor.

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Nicholas Farrell

Nicholas Farrell (born Nicholas Frost in 1955) is an English stage, film and television actor.

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Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), known in his lifetime as Gustavus Vassa, was a writer and abolitionist from the Igbo region of what is today southeastern Nigeria according to his memoir, or from South Carolina according to other sources.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the UK Parliament or British Parliament, is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies and overseas territories.

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Patricia Heaton

Patricia Helen Heaton (born March 4, 1958) is an American actress.

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Philip French

Philip Neville French OBE (28 August 1933 – 27 October 2015) was an English film critic and former radio producer.

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Religious conversion

Religious conversion is the adoption of a set of beliefs identified with one particular religious denomination to the exclusion of others.

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Remi Adefarasin

Remi Adefarasin, BSC (born 2 February 1948, London) is an English cinematographer.

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Roadside Attractions

Roadside Attractions is an American production company and film distributor based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2003 by Howard Cohen and Eric d’Arbeloff, specializing largely in independent films.

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Romola Garai

Romola Sadie Garai (born 6 August 1982) is a British film and television actress.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Rufus Sewell

Rufus Frederik Sewell (born 29 October 1967) is an English actor.

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Sackcloth

Sackcloth (Hebrew שַׂק saq) is a term originally denoting a coarsely woven fabric, usually made of goat's hair.

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Salisbury

Salisbury is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England, with a population of 40,302, at the confluence of the rivers Nadder, Ebble, Wylye and Bourne.

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Samuel Goldwyn Films

Samuel Goldwyn Films (formerly The Samuel Goldwyn Company and Samuel Goldwyn Entertainment) is an American film company that licenses, releases and distributes art-house, independent and foreign films.

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Santa Barbara International Film Festival

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) is an eleven-day film festival held in Santa Barbara, California since 1986.

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Sir William Dolben, 3rd Baronet

Sir William Dolben, 3rd Baronet (1727–1814) was a British MP and a zealous campaigner for the abolition of slavery.

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Slave Trade Act 1807

The Slave Trade Act 1807, officially An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prohibiting the slave trade in the British Empire.

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Stephen Campbell Moore

Stephen Campbell Moore (born Stephen Moore Thorpe; 30 November 1979) is an English actor, best known for his roles in the Alan Bennett play The History Boys and its subsequent film.

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Steven Knight

Steven Knight (born 1959) is an English screenwriter and film director.

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Sylvestra Le Touzel

Sylvestra Le Touzel (born 1958) is a British television, film and stage actor who was born on Jersey in the Channel Islands and raised in Kensington, London.

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Tall ship

A tall ship is a large, traditionally-rigged sailing vessel.

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Terrence Malick

Terrence Frederick Malick (born November 30, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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The Astronaut Farmer

The Astronaut Farmer is a 2006 American drama film directed by Michael Polish, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Mark.

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The Number 23

The Number 23 is a 2007 American psychological thriller film written by Fernley Phillips and directed by Joel Schumacher.

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Thomas Clarkson

Thomas Clarkson (28 March 1760 – 26 September 1846) was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire.

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Time Out (magazine)

Time Out is a British travel magazine published by Time Out Group.

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Toby Jones

Toby Edward Heslewood JonesBirths, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.; at ancestry.com (born 7 September 1966) is an English actor.

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Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually.

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University of Greenwich

The University of Greenwich is a public and research university located in London, in the United Kingdom.

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Walden Media

Walden Media, LLC or Walden Media is an American film investor, distributor, and publishing company best known as the producers of ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' series.

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William IV of the United Kingdom

William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837.

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William Pitt the Younger

William Pitt the Younger (28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806) was a prominent British Tory statesman of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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William Wilberforce

William Wilberforce (24 August 175929 July 1833) was an English politician known as the leader of the movement to stop the slave trade.

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Youssou N'Dour

Youssou N'Dour (born 1 October 1959) is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, composer, occasional actor, businessman, and politician.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Grace_(2006_film)

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