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Home of the Brave

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In 1965, Klansmen murder a civil-rights worker named Viola Liuzzo who was driving with a black passenger.

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Heather Havrilesky Salon.com Home of the Brave... will make you want to stand up for what you believe in. Jul 3, 2019 Full Review Jack Mathews New York Daily News Paola di Florio's haunting documentary about Viola Liuzzo, a Detroit civil rights worker murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 Alabama, adds to the case for ripping J. Edgar Hoover's name off the FBI building in Washington. Rated: 3.5/4 Oct 29, 2004 Full Review Jan Stuart Newsday There is altogether too much footage of daughter Mary wallowing in her mother's martyrdom. Rated: 2.5/4 Oct 28, 2004 Full Review Joanne Laurier World Socialist Web Site In its sympathetic and humane honoring of Viola Liuzzo, Home of the Brave treats the fate of a woman who was, according to director di Florio, "murdered, slandered and deliberately forgotten in history." Mar 5, 2021 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com An interesting docu about significant but little known event Rated: B Apr 10, 2011 Full Review Film Threat Rated: 3/5 Dec 6, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member this movie hits home in this time and age of war Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member A schoking film uncovering the past and analysing the present situation of the Liuzzo family. Viola, a girl-nextdoor gone civil rights activist in the '60s, campaigned in Selma, AL for black suffrage. As she assisted transporting peaceful demonstrators to the hosptial after polic brutality, she was murdered in a drive-by shooting. Three KKK members wereaccused of coordinating the killing as an eyewitness in the killers' car, an FBI agent, testified. However, the killers were gien a minal sentenceand let off by the racist judicial system. later, the Liuzzo family investigated the case further, suspecting the FBI did little to account forall the possible evidence and motives. They came to suspect and charge the FBI agent, Roe, of carrying out the murder the himself being an active member in the KKK. Was it just him,orcould have the FBIbeen behind this assasination? Theanswers aren't clear. What is clear, however, is the trauma it has had on the Liuzzo children. One son ran off into the wilderness, another has gone into hiding since 9/11 as a member of the Michigan Militia, and her daughters have never been quite the same. Di Florio follows one daughter's brave journey to the site of her mother's assasination to meet the people who her mother so couragously sought to aid in their liberation. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Another good movie with 50 cents in it! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member ITS ABT HOME COMING OF THE SOLDIERS FOUGHT DURING IRAQ WAR.THE BAD EXPERIENCES THET HAD TO FACE FROM FAMILY AND IRAQ.TOUCHING MOVIE Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Lite halvseg, men bra film om hemvändande Irak soldater med allt som det innebär...... Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member It is slow, but expresses the difficulty with returning from War. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis In 1965, Klansmen murder a civil-rights worker named Viola Liuzzo who was driving with a black passenger.
Director
Paola di Florio
Producer
Paola di Florio, Nancy Dickenson
Screenwriter
Paola di Florio
Production Co
CounterPoint Films
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 3, 2016
Runtime
1h 15m
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