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      With All Deliberate Speed

      Released May 14, 2004 1h 50m Documentary List
      76% Tomatometer 17 Reviews 83% Audience Score 500+ Ratings Released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling of 1954, this documentary examines, via newsreel footage and interviews, the contentious historical events that led to the landmark decision. It also looks at the ways in which many Americans fought to oppose the end of racial segregation, and at integration's messy aftermath. The film includes narration by many well-known African-American actors, such as Joe Morton. Read More Read Less

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      Frank Scheck Hollywood Reporter All too ironically titled as it details in lethargic and sometimes convoluted fashion the stories of the many heroic and often unsung figures involved. Jul 6, 2004 Full Review Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Sober and honorable, yet it's far from searching. Rated: B- May 19, 2004 Full Review Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post Gets most of its juice from listening to groups of people who were students and activists in segregated Clarendon County, S.C., and Prince Edward County, Va., during the years leading up to the case. May 14, 2004 Full Review Maitland McDonagh TV Guide The film's saddest contention is that five decades later American public schools remain economically segregated by economics, which too often produces classrooms whose complexions have changed little since the pre-Brown era. Rated: 3/5 May 14, 2004 Full Review Paul Sherman Boston Herald It deserves a place alongside such other essential civil rights documentaries as Eyes on the Prize and Freedom on My Mind. Rated: 3.5/4 May 14, 2004 Full Review David Sterritt Christian Science Monitor Straightforward and informative, but overlong and repetitious. Rated: 3/4 May 13, 2004 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member I gave it a Netflix 4 because it had a nice amount of information in it, but it didn't make the case hard enough which we know is so easy to make that schools are still segregated and lacking much of the improvement that was sought by the battle for the initial ruling. Certainly this insight can be supplemented by films that have been recently released such as "The Lottery", "Waiting for Superman", and "The Principal Story" with the reigniting of the educational debate, but know that this is the course of your action if you intend to use this as any sort of teaching tool or foundation for a discussion. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member important topic, boring documentary Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member crack and smack hew invented th@ crap Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review walter m [font=Century Gothic][color=darkgreen]"Baraka" is a mesmerizing cinematic essay that takes the viewer on a tour of the world; one that is wordless but set to music. It shows the amazing diversity of cultures from rural to urban; primitive to sophisticated and everything in between. This amazing documentary is almost constantly in motion; it occasionally takes a moment to record something at rest. [/color][/font] [font=Century Gothic][color=#006400][/color][/font] [font=Century Gothic][color=navy]"With All Deliberate Speed" is a documentary made on the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education which struck down the doctrine of separate but equal established in Plessy v. Ferguson(1896) and ordered the desegregation of schools 'with all deliberate speed.' It looks at the events leading up to the momentous decision and also afterwards focusing on two of the five school districts named in the suit, Clarendon County, SC and Prince Edward County, Va. Clarendon County has fared the worse of the two districts and continues to fight in the courts for suitable education.(One of the reasons a quality public education is important is possibly allowing some of its poorer citizens to escape a perpetual cycle of poverty.) I already knew most of the history involved, so I would have liked it if this documentary had focused on more of the events following the decision, especially on the battle over busing in Boston in the 1970's to show that segregated schools are not simply a phenomenon of the South.[/color][/font] Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling of 1954, this documentary examines, via newsreel footage and interviews, the contentious historical events that led to the landmark decision. It also looks at the ways in which many Americans fought to oppose the end of racial segregation, and at integration's messy aftermath. The film includes narration by many well-known African-American actors, such as Joe Morton.
      Director
      Peter Gilbert
      Producer
      Steve Carlis, Steve Rosenbaum
      Distributor
      Discovery Docs
      Production Co
      Camera Planet
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      May 14, 2004, Wide
      Release Date (DVD)
      Jan 25, 2005
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $4.9K
      Runtime
      1h 50m