Freedom Now! is a major documentary series that vividly brings our forgotten American history to life: the early inroads of the Spanish Conquistadors and their descendants into the “New World;” the Black interpreters, scouts and guides who helped the first White explorers interact with the Natives in North America; the incredible stories of notorious Black outlaws and courageously intellectual Natives; tales of Native American slave owners, and the true history of the Alamo, the Transcontinental Railroad, the Gold Rush Days and their forgotten impact on Native, Hispanic, Chinese and African-Americans. And through it all, the indomitable drive for freedom and equality in the face of often heart-lifting support and generosity, but also rank racism, land-hunger, and the undying, unquenchable spirit that characterized the collective pioneer experience.

 

Indeed, the real story of how “America” became America is a multi-dimensional, fascinating mosaic of extraordinary, unexpectedly overlapping, conflicting and competing forces, forgotten groups-and-power-struggles, and dynamically dangerous people. 

 

That multi-faceted, multi-layered, fiendishly complex and highly emotional story has never been fully told.  “Freedom Now!” will tell that exciting, adventurous, often tragic, enlightening, and yes, inspiring story.