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Scottsboro: An American Tragedy is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Daniel Anker and Barak Goodman.The film is based on one of the longest-running and most controversial courtroom pursuits of racism in American history, which led to nine black teenaged men being wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in Alabama. [1]
In 1976, NBC aired a TV movie called Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys, based on the case. In 1998, Court TV produced a television documentary on the Scottsboro trials for its Greatest Trials of All Time series. [145] A premiere screening and discussion was held at Columbia University on July 21, 1998 in conjunction with the New York NAACP.
Heavens Fall is a 2006 American film based on the Scottsboro Boys incident of 1931. Plot. In the film, two young white women ...
Scottsboro, Alabama, United States; Scottsboro, Georgia, United States; The Scottsboro Boys, involved in a racially charged legal case that made it to the United States Supreme Court; Scottsboro: A Novel, a 2008 novel by Ellen Feldman nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction; Scottsboro: An American Tragedy, a 2001 documentary about the above ...
Ken Burns, the legendary documentarian has examined nearly every era of American history. We ranked all of his films, from Baseball to The Vietnam War.
The Scottsboro Boys Museum is located in the former Joyce Chapel United Methodist Church, a former African American church. [5] The oldest surviving African American church in the county, [ 2 ] the congregation dissolved in January 2009 and leased its building to the museum. [ 6 ]
In the Backstreet Boys documentary “Backstreet Boys: ... My mother gave me the choice. I don’t know why she left that decision up to an 11-year-old child, but it just kind of happened.” ...
Terkanian’s relentless quest to discover what happened to her daughter, decades after her disappearance, unfolds in a new, two-part Netflix docuseries, “Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter ...