Movie2014 · Released · 127 min
The story of the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition and prompt change that forever altered history. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement.
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David Oyelowo
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Carmen Ejogo
Coretta Scott King
Tom Wilkinson
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Giovanni Ribisi
Lee White
Tim Roth
Gov. George Wallace
André Holland
Andrew Young
Colman Domingo
Ralph Abernathy
Common
James Bevel
Stephan James
John Lewis
Omar J. Dorsey
James Orange
LaKeith Stanfield
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Oprah Winfrey
Annie Lee Cooper
Tessa Thompson
Diane Nash
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Fred Gray
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Bayard Rustin
Kent Faulcon
Sullivan Jackson
Lorraine Toussaint
Amelia Boynton
Alessandro Nivola
John Doar
David Dwyer
Chief Wilson Baker
E. Roger Mitchell
Frederick Reese
Dylan Baker
J. Edgar Hoover
Ledisi
Mahalia Jackson
Niecy Nash
Richie Jean Jackson
Corey Reynolds
Rev. C.T. Vivian
Wendell Pierce
Rev. Hosea Williams
Charity Jordan
Viola Lee Jackson
Nigel Thatch
Malcolm X
Trai Byers
James Forman
Stan Houston
Sheriff Jim Clark
Jeremy Strong
James Reeb
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