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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391151869
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Manufacturer: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 12, 2008
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 43885
Studio: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Inmate activist George Lester Jackson?s (CSI's Gary Dourdan) short life became a flashpoint for revolution igniting the bloodiest riot in San Quentin?s history. In a story ripped from history?s headlines Black August traces Jackson?s spiritual journey and violent fate from being sent up on a one-year-to-life sentence for robbing a gas station of $71 to galvanizing the Black Guerrilla Family with his incendiary book of letters Soledad Brother to the fierce August day when his younger brother Jonathan shocked the world by taking a California courtroom hostage to protest Jackson?s upcoming trial.Running Time: 116 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/TRUE STORY UPC: 085391151869 Manufacturer No: 1000024728
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This is one of the most powerful stories I've ever watched about the Soledad Brothers. Gary Dourdan is a superb actor! I've admired his work since "Different World & Laurel Canyon." I allowed my students to watch & it sparked major interest in the Black Panther parties mission and the injustice in the prison systems(which is still prevalent today).
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Overall, Black August is a very good movie. Dourdan does a superb job in his role as George Jackson. The only problems I have with this movie are the use of artistic license that create historical inaccuracies and the weird scenes that involve Dourdan practicing Kung Fu while his voice over narrates real letters written by Jackson.
Historical Inaccuracy....
In the movie, lawyer Stephen Bingham is shown to have smuggled in the 9mm handgun for Jackson's escape plan. In reality, ... Read More
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This is truly a wonderful movie.
I enjoyed it so much and so did my son.
Thanks a mil.
Tina Foushee
Washington DC
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