Drama

The Ghosts of Mississippi

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  • Title: The Ghosts of Mississippi
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to 1991 and director Rob Reiner‘s biographical courtroom drama The Ghosts of Mississippi concerning the prosecution of white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith (James Woods) 30 years after he murdered civil rights activist Medgar Evers (James Pickens Jr.). With most of the movie set in the early 1990s, Alec Baldwin stars as Assistant District Attorney Bobby DeLaughter who picks up the threads of the case after meeting the victim’s widow Myrlie (Whoopi Goldberg) and attempts to get justice for the Evers family despite the trouble it stirs up around town and within his own family.

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Selma

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  • Title: Selma
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Released just months before the 50th anniversary of the historic civil rights march through Alabama, 2014’s Selma is most notable for David Oyelowo‘s lead performance of Martin Luther King Jr. and the unflinching framing of events from director Ava DuVernay and cinematographer Bradford Young who never shy away from the brutality of racism which King and others met with grace, strength, dignity, and perseverance to fight for the rights guaranteed to them by the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Judas and the Black Messiah

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  • Title: Judas and the Black Messiah
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Released in early 2021 to critical acclaim, Judas and the Black Messiah explored 1960s tensions between police, and the Federal Government, and the African-American community. Inspired by true events, thief and con man “Wild” Bill O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield) is turned into FBI informant by the agency desperate to quell the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party and the popularity and influence of its chairman Fred Hampton (Best Supporting Actor Daniel Kaluuya) in the late 1960s.

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Women Talking

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  • Title: Women Talking
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Adapted from the novel of the same name by writer/director Sarah Polley, Women Talking takes us inside the conversations of a group of women (Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, and Kate Hallett) of a Mennonite colony who discover that several of the men have been drugging and raping the women at night and now must deal with the hard truth which has been revealed.

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