Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2000)

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Documentary filmmaker Barak Goodman explores the famed Scottsboro case of 1931. That year, nine black males, aged 13 to 19, were tried, convicted, and almost executed for raping two white women of dubious reliability. The case soon became an international cause célèbre and proved to be a catalyst… More

Unrated,
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Genres
Documentary, Special Interest
In Theaters
Jan 19, 2001 Wide

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  • Amy Taubin, Village Voice

    Scottsboro is fine TV, but it suggests that too much material was left behind in the AVID storage file.

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