761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers

Freedom is never free, and it is, with a few exceptions, America's collective ethic to express exceptional thanksgiving to those who served and still serve to protect that freedom, sometimes at an asteonomical cost. In the case of the men of the 761st Tank Battalion, that ethic was suppressed, repressed, and directly denied by many, to include the War Department, to these people who fought so gallantly with superior results, only to return home to a still-segregated and largely hostile nation. This documentary is a personal journey for Actor/Director Morgan Freeman, to not only tell a story no one believed or listened to, but to also discover the history of service of his own uncle who served in the gallant 761st. It records the accomplishments and experiences of remarkable men thrust into an unprecedented 180-plus days of combat, and the shameful treatment they received upon their return home. This truth, now forever a part of American history, exists to inspire past, present & future members of the US Armed Forces, to gather long overdue thanks from a grateful nation, and to defeat the weakness of mind and thought that believes people of color, or any fellow human is of less value or quality than any other.