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Selma

Duration: 1 hour, 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC One Scotland HD

Available for 7 months

Film chronicling the tumultuous three-month period in 1965 when Dr Martin Luther King Jr led a campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition, culminating in the epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, which led President Johnson to sign the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement that forever altered history. Show less

Contributors

Martin Luther King Jr:
David Oyelowo
President Lyndon B Johnson:
Tom Wilkinson
Coretta Scott King:
Carmen Ejogo
Lee White:
Giovanni Ribisi
Amelia Boynton:
Lorraine Toussaint
John Lewis:
Stephan James
Rev Hosea Williams:
Wendell Pierce
James Bevel:
Common
Jimmie Lee Jackson:
LaKeith Stanfield
Fred Gray:
Cuba Gooding Jr
J Edgar Hoover:
Dylan Baker
Governor George Wallace:
Tim Roth
Annie Lee Cooper:
Oprah Winfrey
Cager Lee:
Henry G Sanders
Andrew Young:
Andre Holland
Gunnar Jahn:
Jim France
Bayard Rustin:
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Ralph Abernathy:
Colman Domingo
James Orange:
Omar J Dorsey
Diane Nash:
Tessa Thompson
Frederick Reese:
E Roger Mitchell
Mahalia Jackson:
Ledisi Young
Sullivan Jackson:
Kent Faulcon
Richie Jean Jackson:
Niecy Nash
Reverend CT Vivian:
Corey Reynolds
Roy Reed:
John Lavelle
James Forman:
Trai Byers
James Reeb:
Jeremy Strong
Director:
Ava DuVernay
Writer:
Paul Webb

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