Originally released as a motion picture in 2015. Contains 65-minute theatrical version and 37-minute classrooom version. Extras include John Lewis on Selma; Doug Jones on the Fifth Little Girl; Bryan Stephenson on Advocacy; On race, Class and Justice; Morris Dees on Bias; Mary Badham on ridign the bus; Translations; version menu; scene selection. Includes short interviews with Wayne Flynt, Nancy G. Anderson, Phillip Alford, Mary Badham, Eric Holder, Katie Couric.
Summary:
A documentary that uses Harper Lee's 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird as a lens to view race, class, gender and justice, then and now. Woven through the film is the story of two extraordinarily different high schools in Birmingham, Alabama - one black, one white - who collaborate on a remarkable production of the adapted play, To Kill a Mockingbird. In addition to this unique collaboration, we hear the voices of political leaders (Congressman John Lewis, former Attorney General Eric Holder), journalists (Katie Couric, Rick Bragg), actors (Mary Badham "Scout", Phillip Alford "Jem" in the 1962 movie), writers (Diane McWhorter, Rick Bragg), scholars (Charles Ogletree, Wayne Flynt, Cynthia E. Jones, Marshall Ganz), lawyers (Doug Jones, Reginald Lindsay, Richard Jaffe) and activists (Bryan Stephenson, Rev. Joseph Lowery, Morris Dees) mingle with those of students and teachers. Together these diverse voices reveal that as a country we have made progress but are still struggling with the issues of race, class and justice addressed in the novel.
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