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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 Jul 3, 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 Oct 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 Oct 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 Mar 5, 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 Apr 10, 2011
B
An interesting docu about significant but little known event Go to Full Review
Ken Fox TV Guide Oct 29, 2004
3.5/5
Even more than a crucial piece of remedial historiography, the film is also an unsettling exploration of the impact violence and shameful injustice continue to have on a family nearly 40 years after the fact. Go to Full Review
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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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Movie Info

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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