The empty rhetoric about "the price of freedom" that dominated so much post-9/11 posturing by politicians and opportunistic public figures snaps firmly into focus in light of this searing documentary's revelations about Viola Liuzzo, an unjustly forgotten hero of (and martyr to) the Civil Rights movement. Liuzzo was the 39-year-old wife of a Teamster boss and a mother of five who, stirred into action by the "Bloody Sunday" riot that rocked Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965, left her Detroit home and traveled to the Deep South to participate in the now-legendary Voters Rights March. She never made it home. On the last night of the four-day, 54-mile march, Liuzzo was sho...
Released:
2004
Rated:
NR
Length:
75 mins