SELMA is the story of a
movement. The film chronicles 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. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery
culminated in President Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) signing the Voting Rights Act
of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights
movement. Director Ava DuVernay’s SELMA tells the real story of how the
