Selma (2014)

Cast

David Oyelowo

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tom Wilkinson

President Lyndon B. Johnson

Carmen Ejogo

Coretta Scott King

Tim Roth

Gov. George Wallace

Oprah Winfrey

Annie Lee Cooper

Giovanni Ribisi

Lee White

Alessandro Nivola

John Doar

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Fred Gray

André Holland

Andrew Young

Omar J. Dorsey

James Orange

Colman Domingo

Ralph Abernathy

Common

James Bevel

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Bayard Rustin

Tessa Thompson

Diane Nash

Lorraine Toussaint

Amelia Boynton

David Dwyer

Chief Wilson Baker

E. Roger Mitchell

Frederick Reese

Dylan Baker

J. Edgar Hoover

Ledisi Anibade Young

Mahalia Jackson

Kent Faulcon

Sullivan Jackson

Niecy Nash

Richie Jean Jackson

Corey Reynolds

Rev. C.T. Vivian

Wendell Pierce

Rev. Hosea Williams

Stephan James

John Lewis

Lakeith Stanfield

Jimmie Lee Jackson

Charity Jordan

Viola Lee Jackson

Trai Byers

James Forman

Stan Houston

Sheriff Jim Clark

Nigel Thatch

Malcolm X

Jeremy Strong

James Reeb

Tara Ochs

Viola Liuzzo

Martin Sheen

Frank Minis Johnson

Stephen Root

Col. Al Lingo

Greg Maness

Aide

Haviland Stillwell

President's Secretary

Charles Black

Elder Marcher

Jody Thompson

White Marcher

Henry G. Sanders

Cager Lee

Jim France

Gunnar Jahn

Harry Belafonte

self (archive footage)

Tony Bennett

self (archive footage)

Sammy Davis Jr.

self (archive footage)

Synopsis

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.

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