Separate But Equal

Separate But Equal (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Emmy Awards
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
193 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu

Movie filmed in 1991 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
George Stevens Jr.

Written By:
George Stevens Jr.

Actors:
Sidney Poitier ..... Thurgood Marshall
Burt Lancaster ..... John W. Davis
Richard Kiley ..... Chief Justice Earl Warren
Cleavon Little ..... Robert L. 'Bob' Carter
Gloria Foster ..... Vivian 'Buster' Marshall
John McMartin ..... Governor James F. Byrnes
Graham Beckel ..... Josiah C. Tulley
Ed Hall ..... Reverend J.A. Delaine
Lynne Thigpen ..... Ruth Alice Stovall
Macon McCalman ..... W.B. Springer
Randle Mell ..... Charles L. Black, Jr.
Henderson Forsythe ..... Justice Robert Jackson
Cheryl Lynn Bruce ..... Gladys Hampton
Tommy Hollis ..... Harry Briggs Sr.
John Rothman ..... Jack Greenberg

Synopsis:

Based on the ground-breaking Brown vs. the Board of Education case, the made-for-television Separate But Equal follows a young Thurgood Marshall (Sidney Poitier) as a lawyer who argues the racially-charged lawsuit before the Supreme Court. When the black students of Clarendon County, South Carolina are denied their request for a single schoolbus, a bitter and courages battle for justice and equality begins. The NAACP lawyer's desparate fight for the civil rights that didn't come with the outlaw of slavery nearly a century ago becomes an all-encompassing struggle both in his personal life as well as the courtroom. Marshall's opponent is John W. Davis (Burt Lancaster) and the two argue passionately and eloquently

This film follows the true story of the NAACP court challenge of racial school segregation in the Brown vs. Board of Education. This was the struggle would destroy the legal validity for racial segregation in general and prove to be the start and the first major victory of the civil rights movement.

Court-room drama about the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision to de-segregate American schools.

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