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Selma

Duration: 1 hour, 58 minutes

on BBC Two England

Available for 8 months

Biopic chronicling the three-month period in 1965 which saw Dr Martin Luther King Jr lead a turbulent march from Selma to Montgomery in a bid to secure equal voting rights. Show more

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

BBC Two England

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