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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 07/03/2019
Home of the Brave... will make you want to stand up for what you believe in. Go to Full Review
Jack Mathews New York Daily News 10/29/2004
3.5/4
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. Go to Full Review
Jan Stuart Newsday 10/28/2004
2.5/4
There is altogether too much footage of daughter Mary wallowing in her mother's martyrdom. Go to Full Review
Joanne Laurier World Socialist Web Site 03/05/2021
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." Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 04/10/2011
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An interesting docu about significant but little known event Go to Full Review
Film Threat 12/06/2005
3/5
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07/14/2012 this movie hits home in this time and age of war See more 11/28/2008 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. See more 07/13/2008 Another good movie with 50 cents in it! See more 07/12/2008 ITS ABT HOME COMING OF THE SOLDIERS FOUGHT DURING IRAQ WAR.THE BAD EXPERIENCES THET HAD TO FACE FROM FAMILY AND IRAQ.TOUCHING MOVIE See more 07/07/2008 Lite halvseg, men bra film om hemvändande Irak soldater med allt som det innebär...... See more 06/28/2008 It is slow, but expresses the difficulty with returning from War. See more 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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