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FilmMovie ReviewsSelma — 2014

Selma

2014

2h 8m

Biography/Drama/History

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Cast

David Oyelowo (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)Carmen Ejogo (Coretta Scott King)Oprah Winfrey (Annie Lee Cooper)Tom Wilkinson (President Lyndon B. Johnson)Jim France (Gunnar Jahn)Trinity Simone (Girl #1)Mikeria Howard (Girl #2)Jordan Rice (Girl #3)Ebony Billups (Girl #4)Nadej K. Bailey (Girl #5)Elijah Oliver (Boy #1)Clay Chappell (Registrar)Giovanni Ribisi (Lee White)Haviland Stillwell (President's Secretary)André Holland (Andrew Young)Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Bayard Rustin)Colman Domingo (Ralph Abernathy)Omar J. Dorsey (James Orange)

Director

Ava DuVernay

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Synopsis

A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.

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