Deacons for Defense
(2003)

Fiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/DRAMA/DEACONS

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/DRAMA/DEACONS Available

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Showtime Entertainment : Hallmark Entertainment Distribution, LLC, [2003]
©2003
EDITION
Full screen format
DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
1932228829 SHO1093, 758445109320
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Originally broadcast as a made-for TV movie in 2003

Set in Louisiana in the 1960s, a group calling themselves Deacons for Defense rise up against the Ku Klux Klan. A hard-working man forms the Black militia group which then became a focal point during civil rights movement

Special features: filmographies of Forest Whitaker and Jonathan Silverman; interviews with Forest Whitaker and Jonathan Silverman

Director of photography, Ron Stannett. ; editor, Harry Keramidas ; music by Michel Colombier ; Canadian casting by, Stephanie Gorin ; production designer, Peter Emmink

Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Silverman, Ossie Davis, Paul Benjamin, Gene Mack, Beau Starr, Tyrone Benskin, Melanie Nicholls-King, Chris Britton

MPAA rating: R

DVD, region 1

English (Dolby 5.1 or stereo 2.0) and Spanish (mono.) language soundtracks; closed-captioned in English

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