Sounders is a film about a 1933 African-American Louisiana sharecropping family, The Morgans, and their family crisis after their father Nathan Lee Morgan, is unjustly convicted of a crime and sent to a prison camp. In time Nathan's wife Rebecca Morgan and her eldest son decide to visit Nathan in the camp. Along their odyssey, the eleven year old boy learns lessons in life and love from both his mother and a dedicated black schoolteacher.

The cast includes: Cicely Tyson, Kevin Hooks, Taj Mahal, Carmen Matthews, Paul Winfield, James Best, Eric Hooks, Yvonne Jarrell, and William T. Bennett.

SOUNDER was nominated for the Best Picture award.

Directed by: Martin Ritt.