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[10/14/20 - 08:59 AM]
Documentary "The Soul of America," Based on Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Jon Meacham's Best-Selling Book, Debuts October 27 on HBO
The film illuminates our current fraught political reality by exploring historical challenges of the past, all instances in which "our better angels" battled against the forces of hatred and division that are recurring themes in American life.

[via press release from HBO]

Documentary THE SOUL OF AMERICA, Based On Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Jon Meacham's Best-Selling Book, Debuts October 27 On HBO

THE SOUL OF AMERICA, debuting TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27 (9:00-10:17 p.m. ET/PT), follows writer, journalist, historian and prolific presidential biographer Jon Meacham as he offers his timely and invaluable insights into the United States' current political and historical moment by examining its past.

The film will be available on HBO and to stream on HBO Max.

Based on Meacham's 2018 bestseller, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels and produced by Kunhardt Films (Emmy(R) winner for HBO's "True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality"), the film illuminates our current fraught political reality by exploring historical challenges of the past, such as the women's suffrage movement, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, McCarthyism and the struggle to pass Civil Rights legislation in the 1960s - all instances in which "our better angels" battled against the forces of hatred and division that are recurring themes in American life. The film also chronicles Meacham's life and career as a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian as he shares his insights into America's past and present.

Part political documentary, part biography, the film interweaves archival material and interviews with Meacham along with insights from journalists, academics and civil rights activists. Focusing on pivotal moments in our history that reflect America's longstanding struggles with racism, sexism and xenophobia, Meacham demonstrates how we continue to confront animosity in American politics, economic anxiety, isolationist and nativist tendencies and conspiracy theories. Helping us to better understand the parallels between current events and their historical antecedents, THE SOUL OF AMERICA ultimately gives hope that the lessons of the past may bring the nation closer to achieving its democratic ideals.

In addition to extensive interviews with Meacham, the film features insights from historian and author Lisa Tetrault; Jon Meacham's wife, Keith Smythe Meacham; journalist and author Evan Thomas; civil rights activist Donald Tamaki; actor and activist George Takei; civil rights attorney Dale Minami; civil rights activist Janice Wesley Kelsey; U.S. Representative and civil rights activist John Lewis, who passed away on July 17, 2020; and others.

THE SOUL OF AMERICA is directed by KD Davison, produced by George Kunhardt and Teddy Kunhardt, executive produced by Peter Kunhardt; co-producer and editor, Richard Lowe; co-producer, Elyse Frenchman; composer, Gary Lionelli; director of photography, Bill Kirstein. For HBO: executive producers Nancy Abraham and Lisa Heller.

ABOUT JON MEACHAM

Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. His latest work, His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope, was published on August 25, 2020 with Penguin Random House. He is the author of #1 New York Times bestselling books including The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross; The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels; Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power; American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House; Franklin and Winston; Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush; and Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation. He is the host of Cadence13's Hope, Through History documentary podcast franchise, a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, a contributing writer for The New York Times Book Review, and a fellow of the Society of American Historians. Meacham lives in Nashville with his wife and children.

ABOUT KD DAVISON

KD Davison is a writer and filmmaker based in New York. She is the author of a forthcoming memoir on the Great Recession and recently co-directed "Ordinary People," a documentary film on mass incarceration in post-production with Get Lifted Film Co.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

A Kunhardt Films production, The Soul of America is executive produced by Peter Kunhardt, and produced by George Kunhardt and Teddy Kunhardt. Together the Kunhardts have partnered with HBO on 16 documentaries, including Peabody-winning "True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality," the IDA award-winning "John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls," the NAACP Image Award-nominated and Emmy(R)-winning "King in the Wilderness," and Emmy(R)-winning "Jim: The James Foley Story," among many other projects.





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