Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch

Born: January 14, 1947
in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Taylor Branch is the Pulitzer-Prize winning author, best known for his series on Martin Luther King, Jr and the Civil Rights era including Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, (National Book Award) Pillars of Fire and At Canaan’s Edge. He has also received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and the National Humanities Medal.

Movies for Taylor Branch...

Title: Bill Russell: Legend
Character: Self - Co-Author with Bill Russell, 'Second Wind'
Released: February 8, 2023
Type: TV
Winningest NBA champion and civil rights icon Bill Russell builds a larger-than-life legacy on and off the court in this 2-part biographical documentary.
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Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Title: Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Character: Self
Released: May 5, 2021
Type: Movie
An inspiring portrait of the life and legacy of Jewish theologian and philosopher, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. Heschel was one of the most remarkable and inspiring figures of the American 20th Century. He was a mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr and the entire Civil Rights Movement, a leading critic of the Vietnam War, a champion for Soviet Jews, and a pioneer in the work of interfaith dialogue.
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Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Title: Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Character: Self
Released: March 24, 2018
Type: Movie
A documentary following the civil rights movement and how the media, in particular the burgeoning TV, was used to fight for equality in the 1960s. From Selma to Charlottesville, we also see how modern activists use today's technology to continue fighting injustice today.
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Freedom Summer
Title: Freedom Summer
Character: Self - Historian
Released: January 17, 2014
Type: Movie
In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying authorities, they registered voters, created freedom schools, and established the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Fifty years later, eyewitness accounts and never-before-seen archival material tell their story. Not all of them would make it through.
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Out of Luck
Title: Out of Luck
Character: Himself
Released: February 4, 2005
Type: Movie
An in depth look at the full effect of State Lotteries on the players and the people around them.
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Citizen King
Title: Citizen King
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Documentary about the final five, turbulent years in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King. The story begins at the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963, when a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism and comes to a bloody end five years later on a motel balcony in Memphis. King has since become a mythic figure, an activist whose works and image are more hotly contested, negotiated and sold than almost anyone else's in American history. (Storyville)
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4 Little Girls
Title: 4 Little Girls
Character: Self - Author
Released: July 9, 1997
Type: Movie
On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a crime that shocked the nation--and a defining moment in the history of the civil-rights movement. Spike Lee re-examines the full story of the bombing, including a revealing interview with former Alabama Governor George Wallace.