Selma

Synopsis

"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 initiated and directed by James Bevel and led by Martin Luther King Jr., Hosea Williams, and John Lewis. The film stars actors David Oyelowo as King, Tom Wilkinson as President Lyndon B. Johnson, Tim Roth as George Wallace, Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King, and Common as Bevel.. . . . In a scene-by-scene analysis of 18 films based on true stories, the visual blog Information is Beautiful gave Selma a score of 100%, indicating that every scene was evaluated as "True" or "True-ish", noting "This movie painstakingly recreates events as they happened, and takes care to include everybody who was involved.'" [Wikipedia]

Genre

Historical

Released

2014

Location

United States

Period

Nobel Peace Prize (1964), Selma and Birmingham(1965);

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