Quest for Freedom

Duration: 600

Creator: Churchill Films (CHUH)

Complete Record: The story of man’s unending quest for freedom is told through animation, making inventive use of art treasures of the past. The spirited chronicle highlights the prehistory struggle for freed`om from hunger and danger. Athens as the birthplace of democracy; the Roman contribution of justice; how freedom was submerged by feudalism in the Middle Ages and how it slowly emerged with the rise of a middle class; the rebirth of freedom during the Renaissance; the major documents which safeguard freedom in the modern world; contemporary milestones in the quest for freedom. The film translates abstract concepts into vivid, tangible, concrete visual terms. The barriers to freedom presented by natural environment are differentiated from man-made barriers. The essential guarantees of personal and political freedom are explained. The film illuminates two central ideas: 1) freedom and learning are inseparable; 2) freedom is a universal goal, sought by many peoples in the past and yet to be achieved by many in the future. Cave paintings; Egyptian art; Greek art and sculpture; Renaissance art.