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Films about Martin Luther King Jr. (17 P) Pages in category "Civil rights movement in film" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
Rustin is a 2023 American biographical drama film directed by George C. Wolfe, from a screenplay by Julian Breece and Dustin Lance Black, and a story by Breece about the life of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. [2]
By the 1990s American attitudes on race were becoming more liberal and a new wave of films looked back at the Civil Rights Movement as history, beginning with Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning of 1989, right through to Ghosts of Mississippi in 1996. [14] More recently, Ava DuVernay's 2014 film Selma has shown there is much more in the civil ...
Though tension between father and son over civil rights issues fuels most of the drama in the film, [Eugene Allen's son] Charles Allen was not the radical political activist that Gaines's son is in the movie." [54] Particular criticism has been directed at the film accuracy in portraying President Ronald Reagan. While Alan Rickman's performance ...
Selma is a 2014 historical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Paul Webb.It is based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches which were initiated and directed by James Bevel [5] [6] and led by Martin Luther King Jr., Hosea Williams, and John Lewis.
The Best of Enemies is a 2019 American drama film directed and written by Robin Bissell in his feature debut.It is based on the book The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South by Osha Gray Davidson, which focuses on the rivalry between civil rights activist Ann Atwater and Ku Klux Klan leader C. P. Ellis.
This is a list of films that deal with the topic of race or racism. (*) mark are documentary films. 1910s ... Civil rights; Inequality in Hollywood; Magical Negro;
Malcolm X is a 1992 American independent [3] epic biographical drama film about the African-American activist Malcolm X.Directed and co-written by Spike Lee, the film stars Denzel Washington in the title role, alongside Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr., and Delroy Lindo.