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Something to watch tonight: Tuesday 25 July
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Something to watch tonight: Tuesday 25 July

Amazing Grace (Apted, 2006) is a physical rental from Aro St Video and Alice in Videoland

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Jul 25, 2023
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Hunting through my greatest hits for something posted on this day in history, I came across a film that isn’t all that easy to find (physical media only in Aotearoa) but seems appropriate to post after yesterday’s selection.

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The first steps towards the ending of slavery in the United States was the banning of the importation of enslaved people into the country in 1807 – 55 years before the Emancipation Proclamation and 57 years before all slaves were effectively freed by the end of the Civil War…
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2 years ago · 3 comments · Dan Slevin

Here’s what I wrote I wrote in the Capital Times back in 2007 about Michael Apted’s Amazing Grace:

… a handsome period piece about …

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