A deeply respectful look at the extraordinary life of Harry "Day-O" Belafonte – the calypso musician and actor who helped Hollywood find its social conscience. With Belafonte's endorsement (he narrates and appears as an interviewee), director Susanne Rostock tracks his decades of activism – from the civil rights movement, to Live Aid, to his work with Unicef – while avoiding any of the icky bits (calling Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell "house slaves" in the Bush administration, for instance). Belafonte took the biggest gamble an entertainer can – he risked appearing unpopular – and we could have asked the same of Rostock. The man's good works are plain to see, but his personality remains an enigma.