The movie Selma opened to high praise on Christmas Day — Varietysays director Ava DuVernay delivers "a razor-sharp portrait of the civil rights movement." The film focuses on a 1965 voting rights march from Selma, Ala., to the state capital in Montgomery — a march remembered for the savage beatings participants sustained at the hands of both state and local police.
Of course, there have been civil rights movies from major studios before, but many of those have depicted the movement through the