22.02.2012/ 3pm

SYNOPSIS: Forty years after Martin Luther King's assassination HISTORY™ with newsman Tom Brokaw takes viewers through the extraordinary life and times of America's civil rights visionary. KING goes beyond the legend to portray the man, the questions, the myths and most importantly the relevance of Dr. King's message in today's world. The film includes a rare interview with his son Martin Luther King III as well as associates from the civil rights campaigns such as Andy Young and Harry Belafonte and contemporary figures such as former President Bill Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Bono and others.

Running Time: 94 min., Year: 2008

FREEDOMRIDERS DIRECTOR: Stanley Nelson

SYNOPSIS: The film chronicles the story behind hundreds of civil rights activists called the Freedom Riders who challenged the racial segregation of the American interstate transport and by traveling together in small interracial groups and sitting where they chose on the buses and trains to demand equal access to terminal restaurants and waiting rooms, and to bring racial segregation national attention. 

Running Time: 120 min., Year: 2010

 

28.02.2012 / 3pm

 

29.02.2012 / 3pm

MALCOLM X DIRECTORS: Spike Lee 

SYNOPSIS: Malcolm X is a biographical motion picture about the life and tragic fate of American human rights activist Malcolm X. The film dramatizes key events in Malcolm X's life: his criminal career, his incarceration, his conversion to Islam, his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his later falling out with the organization, his pilgrimage to Mecca and reevaluation of his views concerning whites, and his assassination on February 21, 1965.

Running Time: 202 min., Year: 1992