Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace is a feature film by Michael Apted from the year 2006. The film title refers to the eponymous poem of the former slave trader John Newton. World premiere of the film was on 16 September 2006 at the Toronto Film Festival. Film's release date in the United States was 23 February 2007. The film shows the real story of the young Christian abolitionist William Wilberforce, the end of the 18th Century in the lower house of the British Parliament is elected. He advocates the abolition of the slave trade in a British Kingdom. He will then issue the ...