Selma, Lord, Selma

Author

Christopher Seitz

Call Number

• DVD DRAMA (EAS)

Edition

Full screen version.

Languages

English dialogue, Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Performers

Mackenzie Astin, Jurnee Smollett, Clifton Powell.

Publication Information

[United States] : Walt Disney Home Video ; Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2003.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

MPAA rating: TVPG, LV.

Summary

Set in 1965, during the turbulent early days of the right-to-vote movement. The story of a young schoolgirl in Selma, Alabama, who is inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to resist the degradation that her fellow African-Americans are suffering.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally broadcast on television in 1999.

Based on the book by Sheyann Webb and Rachel West Nelson as told to Frank Sikora.

Special features: featurette: a bridge to freedom.