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The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution (2018)
Directed by Charles Burnett, Daniel Loewenthal
Documentary · 56m
Tells the poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to the story is the tale of how a new national program, Medicare, was used to mount a dramatic, coordinated effort that desegregated thousands of hospitals across the country in a matter of months.
Cast
Danny Glover
Crew
- Director
- Charles Burnett, Daniel Loewenthal
- Writer
- Leslie Clark, Martin Dornbaum, Anna Reid-Jhirad
- Original Music Composer
- Stephen James Taylor
- Editor
- Daniel Loewenthal
- Producer
- Daniel Loewenthal, Roberta Friedman, Barbara Berney
Details
- Release date
- 2018-04-26
- Runtime
- 56m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English