Singing Revolution, The

Linda Hunt narrates this eye-opening, insightful, and educational 2006 documentary that uses archival film clips and news footage and interviews with conductors, Estonian underground resistance fighters (such as the Forest Brothers), Heritage Society members, revolution singers, artists, professors, television journalists, independence activists, political figures, and Gulag and Siberia prison survivors to showcase the rich history, tradition, and culture steeped in folks songs that are sung at the annual Laulupidu festival and to chronicle the amazing struggle of the citizens of the Republic of Estonia to gain their independence peacefully through song and national unity from the Soviets in 1990 after years of oppression.
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