Wonderfully archived, and told with a remarkable sense of intimacy, visual style, and musical panache, Susanne Rostock s inspiring biographical documentary, SING YOUR SONG, surveys the life and times of singer, actor, and activist Harry Belafonte From his rise to fame as a singer--inspired by Paul Robeson--and his experiences touring a segregated country, to his provocative crossover into Hollywood, Belafonte s groundbreaking career personifies the American civil rights movement and impacted many other social-justice movements Rostock reveals Belafonte as a tenacious hands-on activist who worked intimately with Dr Martin Luther King Jr , mobilized celebrities for social justice, participated in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and took action to counter gang violence, imprisonment, and the incarceration of youth