watch The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies online : It's
a half-hour until showtime in Selma, Ala., and the majority of the auditorium seats are already taken.
watch Into the Woods online : Paramount Pictures is offering free screenings of
Selma, the film depicting the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery marches which led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act. In the movie's namesake town, the audience is
excited.
Watch Unbroken Online : In the front row, in the far left seat, is George Sallie, 85.
He's black, grew up near Selma and was drafted as young man.
Watch The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death Online : "Went
to Korea fighting for someone else's freedom, and really I didn't have freedom myself," Sallie says.
watch Night at the Museum 3 online : After he came back, Sallie says he
got involved in the civil rights movement. He lifts up his ball cap and points to a scar on his forehead — a memento of what's known as Bloody Sunday, the day in March
1965, when protestors were brutally beaten by police as they tried to cross Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Watch Annie Movie Online : Many in the audience have firsthand connections with this
history. Monique Williams was just a child then, but she remembers Annie Lee Cooper, played in the movie by Oprah Winfrey.
watch The Imitation Game online : "Annie Lee Cooper, I'm not quite sure how
Mama found her, but she was our housekeeper for about six months," Williams says. "She was wonderful."
watch Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb online :
Williams says she's sure Cooper will come off great in the movie, but she's a little uneasy about how white Southerners will be depicted. Still, she's looking forward
to it.
watch the hunger games: mockingjay online : Common plays James
Bevel, Tessa Thompson plays Diane Nash, Lorraine Toussaint plays Amelia Boynton and Andre Holland plays Andrew Young in Ava DuVernay's Selma.
watch The Gambler online : Selma portrays a period of history when Martin Luther
King Jr. led marches to demand rights for black people who were systematically prevented from registering to vote in the South.
watch Big Hero 6 online : It took a special effort to bring this film to Selma: The
town doesn't have a commercial movie theater.
watch Penguins of Madagascar online : Selma Mayor George Evans says it
only makes sense the movie should be shown here. He spoke with the filmmakers and the owner of a theater a few towns away, and the two made it happen in the Walton
Theater, which closed last year but was reopened for the screenings.
watch Taken 3 online : "But when we said the movie is going to be here and free, man,
people just were overly elated over that," Evans says.
Watch Exodus: Gods and Kings Online : Inside, the audience is enraptured.
They cheer. They sigh. And when the credits roll, they burst into applause.
watch Top Five online : At first, Evans says, people couldn't believe the movie would
be shown in Selma.
watch PK online : Rev. F. D. Reese, a leader of the Selma movement, says the movie brought
back a lot of memories. "Well, I hope that people will understand the type of sacrifice that had to be made in order for us to enjoy ... the freedom we now enjoy
today."
watch Interstellar online : The Rev. F.D. Reese (second from left) was a leader of
the Selma civil rights movement. His wife, Alline (left), Mayor George Evans and Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., joined him for the showing.
watch Horrible Bosses 2 online : The Rev. F.D. Reese (second from left) was a
leader of the Selma civil rights movement. His wife, Alline (left), Mayor George Evans and Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., joined him for the showing.
Watch Dumb and Dumber To Online : This is Terri Sewell's third time seeing
the film, but the first with her hometown crowd. Sewell represents Selma in Congress and is Alabama's first black congresswoman. She especially wanted to see the movie
with her parents.
Watch Gone Girl Online : "Mommy was literally in tears when she saw the reenactment
of Bloody Sunday," Sewell says. "And you know, as I comforted her, I said, 'Isn't it great that we are in a different space today?' "
Watch Selma Online : Williams agrees much progress has been made, but the film made her
feel embarrassed. Teary-eyed, she explains that she was just a child, but still, oblivious to the injustice of segregation.
Originally Posted by Wrennbro
