Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2001)

Directed by

Daniel Anker, Barak Goodman

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary covers the case of nine Black teenagers wrongly convicted of rape in 1930s Alabama. It shows how the legal fight unfolded over years, with racism shaping every step of the trial and appeals.

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What happens

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Daniel Anker and Barak Goodman. The film is based on one of the longest-running and most controversial courtroom pursuits of racism in American history, which led to nine black teenaged men being wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in Alabama. The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature. It was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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