Before 12 Years A Slave, there was Solomon Northrup’s Odyssey. Before Red Tails there was The Tuskegee Airman. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that before Ava DuVernay’s Selma hits the screen on Christmas Day, there was also another film about that momentous event in Alabama in 1965 which changed the course of the Civil Rights Movement and America as well
I’m talking about Selma Lord Selma, an ABC TV movie which aired on the network in January 1999 and produced by Walt Disney Television and directed by the great African-American filmmaker Charles Burnett.
Since there is no one way to tell a story both films take entirely different approaches with DuVarnay’s film, judging…
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