The Queen of Soul’s transcendent masterpiece is scheduled for release in 2019:

'Amazing Grace', 47 years after it was made, means audiences at last will see the Queen of Soul’s transcendent masterpiece.

Christopher Wilson: In 1970s Detroit, Aretha Franklin’s masterpiece Amazing Grace, the best-selling gospel album of all time, was the background music of my life for everything from house cleaning to homework. So, I couldn’t have been more thrilled to attend the DOC NYC festival last November and be among the first to see the new film Amazing Grace, which chronicles the two-day, live-recording session at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles in January 1972. The film screened in exclusive one-week engagements last month in Los Angeles and New York City, but thankfully, the distributor Neon is making plans for other screening events in 2019.

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Aretha Franklin's Decades-Old Documentary Finally Comes to Theaters in 2019
smithsonian.com In 1970s Detroit, Aretha Franklin's masterpiece Amazing Grace, the best-selling gospel album of all time, was the background music of my life for everything from house cleaning to homework.

In 1965, Bernice Johnson Reagon wrote:
"My history was wrapped carefully for me by my fore-parents in the songs of the church, the work fields, and the blues. Ever since this discovery I’ve been trying to find myself, using the first music I’ve ever known as a basic foundation for my search for truth.” This search for self seems evident in the expression of the 29-year-old Franklin in the grainy footage—a lost treasure for 47 years.

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