Home of the Brave

2004

1h 15m

Documentary

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94%

16 Reviews

Tomatometer

48%

500+ Ratings

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

An interesting docu about significant but little known event

Rated: B

Apr 10, 2011

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Film Threat

Rated: 3/5

Dec 6, 2005

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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

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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

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Audience Member

Another good movie with 50 cents in it!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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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

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Audience Member

Lite halvseg, men bra film om hemvÃ¤ndande Irak soldater med allt som det innebÃ¤r......

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Audience Member

It is slow, but expresses the difficulty with returning from War.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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Paola di Florio

Director

Stockard Channing

Narrator

Paola di Florio

Screenwriter

Paola di Florio

Producer

Nancy Dickenson

Producer

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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
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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