The American founders said that all men are created equal and are endowed with certain unalienable rights—that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They called this a self-evident truth.
Eighty-seven years later, Abraham Lincoln reaffirmed this idea on the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg. And in 1963 these same words echoed from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as Martin Luther King, Jr. urged America to fulfill the promise of its founding.
But humans are separated by enormous differences in talent and circumstance. Why would anyone believe that all men are created equal? That all should be free? That all deserve a voice in choosing their leaders? Why would any nation consider this a self-evident truth?
For the millions around the world who have never tasted liberty, the question cries for an answer.
Reviews
“The immensely respectable and remarkably acute Acton Institute has fashioned a movie on the theme of freedom. It seems that the film will trace the conception of liberty through history, likely beginning with the Greco-Roman period and spending ample time on the crucial contributions of Christianity to the development (creation) of classically liberal civilizations….I recommend the film to all who are interested in the theory and history of freedom, and anxiously await its release.”
– Justin Paulette (Political Machine)
“Not only are the folks at ColdWater top notch professionals with a fine aesthetic sense and a versatile capacity to get and deliver what they promise; they have that most important of all qualities one wants in a production company: they listen, understand and are able to re-articulate the mission of the group they are working with. There were times I would forget they were not originally part of our organization. I am both confident and delighted to recommend their services to others.”
– Rev. Robert A. Sirico, Co-founder and President, Acton Institute