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Brian Banks is a 2018 American biographical drama film directed by Tom Shadyac and written by Doug Atchison.It is based on the true story of Brian Banks, a high school football linebacker who was falsely accused of rape, convicted, sent to prison and upon his release, attempted to fulfill his dream of making the National Football League. [3]
Just Mercy is a 2019 American biographical legal drama film co-written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Michael B. Jordan as Bryan Stevenson, Jamie Foxx as Walter McMillian, Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson, Rafe Spall, and Brie Larson.
[20] Daniel Fienberg from The Hollywood Reporter recommended the miniseries in his review by highlighting that "When They See Us is a rigorous attempt to chronicle an epic legal failure and to help restore a sense of the men as individuals, rather than faceless members of a wrongfully accused collective." Commending DuVernay's thematic and ...
A Florida judge officially exonerated four Black men who were falsely accused of raping a white teenager seven decades ago. The men known as the Groveland Four, Ernest Thomas, Samuel Shepherd ...
Free, White and 21 is a 1963 movie by self-proclaimed "schlockmeister" director Larry Buchanan. [2] It was based on the true story of the controversial trial of a black man accused of raping a white woman in Dallas, Texas in the 1960s.
This week, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu formally apologised to Willie Bennett and Alan Swanson, Black men who were falsely accused of fatally shooting Stuart, an expecting mother, in October of 1989.
A retired police officer headed to Florida for his honeymoon was falsely accused of human trafficking by a traveler who spotted the ex-cop, ... an unarmed Black man strangled to death in 2020 by ...
In addition to falsely reporting that he had been attacked by two unknown individuals, Smollett described one of them as a white male. [3] [2] He also told police the men shouted "This is MAGA country" [4] during the attack, a reference to the political slogan "Make America Great Again". [5]