Question

Film about Bloody Sunday

Eyes on the Prize VI — Bridge to Freedom, 1965

1) Your impressions of this film overall--did anything surprise you?

2) Did you notice a change in heart in Selma's mayor and sheriff (Joseph Smitherman and Jim Clark) from the time of the marches--- and decades later when they were interviewed and commenting on their attitudes toward the march. Did you observe that they had changed their attitudes?

3) Why or why not?

Answer 1

1) Bridge to freedom - 1965 is an exceptionally well made movie on the fight for voting rights. My overall impression has been that, it is not simply a movie. The amount of research that was carried out to make this movie, the primary sources collected and referred and the in-depth coverage of the issue, makes it a historical masterpiece. well, there was nothing that took me by surprise since I was already aware of most of the events but I was definitely awed by the craft and the beautiful way with which the story was told.     

(Please post the ther two questions separately, due to connectivity issue, I ran out of time and I could not answer them.)