Synopsis
This film traces the improbable journey of Charley Pride, from his humble beginnings as a sharecropper’s son on a cotton farm in segregated Sledge, Mississippi to his career as a Negro American League baseball player and his meteoric rise as a trailblazing country music superstar. The new documentary reveals how Pride’s love for music led him from the Delta to a larger, grander world.
Ratings
IMDb8.2/10
4 audience votes
Key crew
- Barbara HallDirector
- Jon SchoutenWriter
Cast
- Tanya TuckerNarrator
- Charley PrideHimself
- Garth BrooksSelf
- Whoopi GoldbergSelf
- Willie NelsonSelf
- Dolly PartonSelf
- Rozene PrideSelf
- Darius RuckerSelf
- Marty StuartSelf
Themes
country musicmental illness