Selma
Based on the true story in 1965, when blacks suffer from the racial discrimination and abuse, so they make a protest under the leadership of Dr Martin Arthur King, calling for equality in registration and voting.
29 January 1954, Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA
8 December 1925, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
18 February 1969, Savannah, Georgia, USA
19 July 1983, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
28 November 1969, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
18 February 1971
4 December 1984, Coevorden, Drenthe, Netherlands
7 November 1964, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
11 December 1942, Mobile, Alabama, USA
5 February 1948, Wharfedale, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
1971
29 December 1990, Flint, Michigan, USA
21 June 1981, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
May 23, 2016
It's the quieter moments where Oyelowo really excels.
June 07, 2016
Sacha Baron Cohen at Harvard, as character Ali G: 'Some of you has probably never even seen a black man before, like that great civil rights leader, Martin Luther Vandross...'
January 09, 2015
Like Dr. King did, the film captures your mind and your heart as it entertains, the way great movies often do.
June 07, 2016
The timeliness of the picture, coupled with the immediacy of the filmmaking, renders 'Selma' more powerful than even its skilled creators could've possibly intended.
January 09, 2015
An uneven yet generally skillful effort that has probably drawn more praise and criticism than it warrants.
January 09, 2015
This is a film about work: the work at hand, the work it takes to do the work, and, for an audience in 2015, the question of whether the work worked.
May 23, 2016
Selma isn't a discrete story of one moment in time that we can observe safely from the sidelines. It is all around us, every day.
January 09, 2015
Vivid, nuanced and, yes, timely.
March 07, 2017
A monumental achievement.
January 12, 2015
More often than not ... "Selma" focuses on the one thing we don't expect in a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. - his doubts - and Oyelowo comes through with a deeply felt and quite brilliant performance.
