"Highway 61: Heart of the Delta celebrates the Mississippi Delta in words and pictures. Edited by Randall Norris with photographs by award-winning photographer Jean Philippe Cyprés, this volume brings to life this storied region of the South. Actor Morgan Freeman provides a foreword in which he recounts his personal history as a child in the Delta and discusses why he was pulled back to his ancestral home, despite its challenges.This b ..."
"Academy Award®-winning actor Morgan Freeman and a star-studded group of celebrities contribute exotic recipes and personal island tales in a splendid cookbook created to help rebuild the hurricane-devastated island of Grenada.In September 2004, Hurricane Ivan ravaged the small Caribbean island of Grenada, destroying homes and changing lives forever. Longtime island-lover Morgan Freeman established the Grenada Relief Fund in 2005. Now co ..."
"Winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor, and best editing, Clint Eastwood's 1992 masterpiece stands as one of the greatest and most thematically compelling Westerns ever made. "The movie summarized everything I feel about the Western," said Eastwood at the time of the film's release. "The moral is the concern with gunplay." To illustrate that theme, Eastwood stars as a retired, once-ruthless kil ..."
"Amistad ist Steven Spielbergs leicht vereinfachende Geschichtsstunde, die sich um die Prozesse von 1840 dreht, in denen 53 Westafrikaner wegen einer blutigen Rebellion auf einem Sklavenschiff angeklagt waren. In weiten Teilen von Schindlers Liste (und später in Der Soldat James Ryan) hielt sich Spielberg mit der ausgedehnten Erzählweise und den technischen Schnörkeln zurück, die ihn zu einem der unterhaltsamsten und manipulativsten Regi ..."
"Glory ist einer der besten Filme, die je über den amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg gedreht wurden. Zudem ist er die erste große Hollywood-Produktion, die sich der wichtigen Rolle der afro-amerikanischen Soldaten in der bewegten Geschichte dieser Nation annimmt. Die Handlung basiert auf den Büchern Lay this Laurel von Lincoln Kirstein, One Gallant Rush von Peter Burchard und den historischen Briefen des Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Sie erzählt d ..."
"March of the Penguins (DVD) (WS)This breathtakingly beautiful documentary chronicles the heroic and harrowing journey that emperor penguins make amid subfreezing temperatures and violent snowstorms at the South Pole in order to mate. It's a scientific enigma that these flightless aquatic birds leave, at summer's end, the watery element that is most favorable for their survival to travel hundreds of miles to engage in their annual mating ..."
Updated Morgan Genealogy A History of James Morgan (1607-1685) of New London, Connecticut, and His Descendants from 1607 to 1997 by Freeman Ernest Morgan, Nathaniel H. Morgan Paperback, 444 Pages, Published 2007 by Heritage Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7884-0870-0, ISBN: 0-7884-0870-4
Savior is Born Greatest Stories Ever Told by MorganFreeman Published by Acta Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-56668-184-1, ISBN: 1-56668-184-7
""The negroes fought gallantly and were headed by as brave a Colonel as ever lived", was one Confederate soldier's eyewitness verdict on the 54th Massachusetts Volunteers immediately after 247 of their 600-man regiment had fallen in bloody swathes beneath the withering fire from Fort Wagner near Charleston, South Carolina in 1863. Glory is their story: the mustering of the first black regiment in the US Army, their battles with the South ..."
"A long time ago, Carter Chambers' (Morgan Freeman) freshman year philosophy professor suggested that his students compose a bucket list, a collection of all the things they wanted to do, see and experience in life before they kicked the bucket. But while Carter was still trying to define his private dreams and plans, reality intruded. Marriage, children, myriad responsibilities and, ultimately, a 46-year job as an auto mechanic graduall ..."
"A long time ago, Carter Chambers' (Morgan Freeman) freshman year philosophy professor suggested that his students compose a bucket list, a collection of all the things they wanted to do, see and experience in life before they kicked the bucket. But while Carter was still trying to define his private dreams and plans, reality intruded. Marriage, children, myriad responsibilities and, ultimately, a 46-year job as an auto mechanic graduall ..."
"Her husband wants sex, the bank has denied her small business loan, creditors are after her house, her kid's big school play is tonight, and her top employee just resigned. One more straw and the camel's back surely will break. Welcome to Divas Doing Business: What the Guidebooks Don't Tell You About Being a Woman Entrepreneur, arming women business owners with the tools and firepower to tackle the unique situations that will test t ..."
"Wie soll ein einzelner Mann die ganze Welt verändern? Diese Frage verfolgt Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) ebenso wie das Bild seiner Eltern, die in den Straßen von Gotham vor seinen Augen niedergeschossen wurden -- ein Erlebnis, das seinem Leben eine radikal neue Richtung gegeben hat. Schuldgefühle und ohnmächtige Wut quälen ihn, nähren seine Rachegefühle, aber auch den Wunsch, das gemeinnützige Engagement seiner Eltern fortzuführen. Bru ..."
"Es ist der verstörendste und beunruhigendste Serienkiller-Thriller seit Das Schweigen der Lämmer. Dabei basiert Sieben auf einer Idee, die ebenso schaurig wie genial ist: Ein von den sieben Todsünden der Bibel besessener Serienkiller sucht sich ausschließlich solche Menschen als Opfer aus, die seiner Ansicht nach eine dieser Todsünden begangen haben. Er arrangiert jeden Tatort mit großer Akribie und erzeugt am Ort seiner Verbrechen grot ..."
"20 OF THE BEST EPISODES FEATURING BILL COSBY, MORGAN FREEMAN, RITA MORENO, SPIDER-MAN and More! If you were between six and ten years old during the years 1971 through 1985, then there is a good chance you learned to read with help from The Electric Company. Comedy sketches, music, animation and special effects were the tools of this "video" classroom. Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman, Rita Moreno, Spider-Man Road Runner and others were the ..."
"A loving tribute to Mississippi told through the profiles of some of its most accomplished sons and daughters. From those who attained celebrity status for their achievements in arts, entertainment, and sports, to those who worked tirelessly, with or without recognition, to move Mississippi forward, the book illuminates what has always been the state's greatest asset, its people. Large coffe table book beautifully illustrated in color a ..."