Freedom Song is a 2000 biographical made-for-television drama film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s.

In the midst of the Freedom Summer, a group of high school students in the small town are eager to make grassroots changes in their own community.

Freedom Song is told in flashbacks from the perspective of Owen Walker, a high school student in the fictional town of Quinlan, Mississippi in the early 1960s.

Growing up in an insulated black community, Owen is oblivious to the white supremacy that still reigned in his town until he has a run-in with racists at a local bus station.

Owen's peers begin the slow, steady work of teaching eligible voters to pass the literacy test and register.

Protesters are arrested several times, culminating in a four-month sentence for Owen, Mr. Wall, and the youth's fellow friends and organizers, Charlie and Isaac.

In 2001, Danny Glover won the Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series, or Dramatic Special for his performance in the film.

The film tied with Tina Andrews' Sally Hemings: An American Scandal for the Writers Guild of America Award for Original Long Form.