Selma (2014)

7.4/10 128 min History Drama

Overview

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.

Cast

David Oyelowo

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Carmen Ejogo

Coretta Scott King

Tom Wilkinson

President Lyndon B. Johnson

Giovanni Ribisi

Lee White

Tim Roth

Gov. George Wallace

André Holland

Andrew Young

Colman Domingo

Ralph Abernathy

Common

James Bevel

Stephan James

John Lewis

Omar J. Dorsey

James Orange

LaKeith Stanfield

Jimmie Lee Jackson

Oprah Winfrey

Annie Lee Cooper

Tessa Thompson

Diane Nash

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Fred Gray

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Bayard Rustin

Kent Faulcon

Sullivan Jackson

Lorraine Toussaint

Amelia Boynton

Alessandro Nivola

John Doar

David Dwyer

Chief Wilson Baker

E. Roger Mitchell

Frederick Reese

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