Home of the Brave (2006)
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93% of critics liked it
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40% of users liked it
(856 ratings)
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Paola di Florio directs Home of the Brave, a documentary about the impact of Viola Liuzzo's murder. Detroit housewife and mother of five, Liuzzo was a civil rights activist who went to Alabama to help with voter registration in 1965. She was in town during the… More Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Paola di Florio directs Home of the Brave, a documentary about the impact of Viola Liuzzo's murder. Detroit housewife and mother of five, Liuzzo was a civil rights activist who went to Alabama to help with voter registration in 1965. She was in town during the pivotal march organized by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which ended in violence at the Edmund Pettus Bridge near Selma. While trying to transport the tear-gased marchers in her car, she was shot by three members of the Ku Klux Klan. Suspects Eugene Thomas, Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr., and William Orville Eaton were found guilty of civil rights violations and later acquitted. The film also explores the FBI investigation in the aftermath of her death, as well as the reaction in the Liuzzo home. Home of the Brave was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004 as part of the documentary competition. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
- Genres
- Documentary, Drama, Action & Adventure, Special Interest
R,
- In Theaters
- May 11, 2004 Wide
- Studio
- Emerging Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
Paola di Florio's haunting documentary about Viola Liuzzo, a Detroit civil rights worker murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 Alabama, adds to the case for ripping J. Edgar Hoover's name off the FBI building in Washington.
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Jan Stuart, Newsday
There is altogether too much footage of daughter Mary wallowing in her mother's martyrdom.
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Anita Gates, New York Times
Paola di Florio's poignant documentary tells the freshly outraging story of Viola Liuzzo, a white woman who was killed while volunteering with the civil rights movement.
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Laura Sinagra, Village Voice
This doc recounting the tragic story of Viola Liuzzo, the only white woman killed during the civil rights struggle, doubles as a narrative of the nascent women's movement.
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Scott Foundas, Variety
A serenely powerful, handcrafted film that navigates into a place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once called 'the tangled discords of our nation.'
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Cast
- Mary Liuzzo
- Tony Liuzzo
- Sally Liuzzo
- Penny Liuzzo
- Sue Liuzzo
- Rose Mary Liuzzo
- Sander Vanocur
- J.L. Chesnut
- John Lewis
- Gloria Steinem
- Eric Jacobs
- Joanne Bland
- Alice West
- Gary May
- Spider Martin
- James Turner
- Phyllis Chesler
- Mary Stanton
- Warren Hanson
- Nicholas Katzenbach
- Leroy Moton
- Judge William Webster
- Murray Fromson
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Stockard Channing
as Narrator
