Movie Title: Selma
Director: Ava DuVernay
Rated: PG-13
Running Time: 128 minutes
Genre: Drama, History
David Oyelowo
Selma is the story of a movement, which chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights. The movie is an origin story of the Selma to Montgomery marches that caused controversy and made it acceptable for black people to vote. Selma stars David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King, Jr., Carmen Ejogo as his wife Coretta Scott King. The movie shows the period that the law was changed so that Black people were allowed to vote, and were encouraged with the false promise of a free mule and 40 acres of land as an apology for being kept as slaves for ages.
