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Plot

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.
MPAA Rating:
Not Yet Rated
Genre(s):
Documentary,Epic and Historical,Special Interest
Run Time:
74min.
Theatrical Release Date:
10/03/2004
DVD Release Date:
11/07/2006
Distributor(s):
Emerging Pictures
Director(s):
Paola di Florio
Starring:
Mary Liuzzo , Tony Liuzzo , Sally Liuzzo , Penny Liuzzo , Sue Liuzzo
Themes:
Social Injustice,Murder Investigations
Tone:
Disturbing,Forceful,Intimate,Reflective
Keywords:
Civil-Rights,FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation),KKK (Ku Klux Klan),acquittal,activism,disillusionment,homemaker,informer,investigation,killing,march [demonstration],mud-slinging,trial [courtroom],voting
Country of Origin:
USA - Limited (10-01-2004)
Language:
English