Trailer: Amazing Grace

After a string of highly successful cross-over albums – which yielded 11 number one singles – Aretha Franklin returned to her gospel roots for her live 1972 album double album Amazing Grace. The album, which was recorded over two nights at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, sold over two million copies becoming the biggest selling gospel album of all time.

On hand for those two nights was legendary filmmaker Sydney Pollack, who captured the whole event with a four-man crew. Nearly two years after his death, the footage – which had been sitting in a vault for nearly 40 years – is finally being pieced together for a documentary based on Pollack’s notes…

Amazing Grace (Official Trailer)

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