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- Release Date: 2000
- Runtime: 84 min
- Genre: Documentary
- Starring: Andre Braugher, Nesbitt Blaisdell, Sam Catlin, Jeffrey DeMunn ... see all
- Director: Daniel Anker, Barak Goodman
- Plot: A look at the infamous "Scottsboro Boys" case that occurred in Alabama in 1931, in which nine young black men were arrested, tried and quickly convicted in the rape of... Read more
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A penetrating documentary of America's racist and politically-charged climate, circa 1931-1950
Jan 22, 2001
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Daniel Anker and Barak Goodman's penetrating documentary should have been renamed "Scottsboro: An American Outrage." The many injustices committed by Alabama's legal system and the American media against nine African-American young men for a 1931 crime (the rape of two... Full review
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2001-01-16
In the ongoing saga of race and American injustice, there are few episodes as horrifying as that of the "Scottsboro boys." Barak Goodman and Daniel Anker 's well-researched, rapidly paced (but, at 87 minutes, far too brief) documentary Scottsboro: An... ... Full Article
A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright 2001 Filmcritic.com This PBS production dramatizes the horrifying events in northern Alabama that led to the trial, retrial, reretrial, and rereretrial of nine black men accused of raping two white women. ... Full Article
Essential American history, painstakingly assembled but painful to watch. In the annals of 20th-century American justice, the story of the "Scottsboro Boys" - nine young black men who were accused of raping two white women - ranks high on the... ... Full Article