A Time for Justice
{{short description|1994 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = A Time for Justice
| image = A Time for Justice poster.jpg
| caption = Film poster
| director =
| producer = Charles Guggenheim
Dan Sturman
| writer =
| narrator =
| cinematography =
| editing =
| studio = Guggenheim Productions
| distributor = Southern Poverty Law Center
| released = {{film date|1994}}
| runtime = 38 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
}}
A Time for Justice is a 1994 American short documentary film produced by Charles Guggenheim. In 1995, it won an Oscar for Documentary Short Subject at the 67th Academy Awards.{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1995 |title=The 67th Academy Awards (1995) Nominees and Winners |access-date=November 20, 2011|work=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|publisher=AMPAS}}[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvXsfo_5l7U Documentary Winners: 1995 Oscars]
Summary
The 38-minute film, narrated by Julian Bond and featuring John Lewis, presents a short history of the Civil Rights Movement using historical footage and spoken accounts of participants. Events recounted are the Montgomery bus boycott; school integration in Little Rock, Arkansas; demonstrations in Birmingham; and the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights.
Production
The film was produced by Guggenheim for the Southern Poverty Law Center.{{cite news|last=Schone|first=Mark|title=Alabama Bound|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rV8XFH6DQVcC&q=%22A%20Time%20for%20Justice%20%22%20%22Southern%20Poverty%20Law%20Center%22&pg=PA84|access-date=January 13, 2011|newspaper=Spin|date=October 1995|page=84}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources/film-kits/americas-civil-rights-movement-a-time-for-justice A Time for Justice] at Teaching Tolerance, Southern Poverty Law Center
- {{IMDb title|id=0111436|title=A Time for Justice}}
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Category:1994 short documentary films
Category:1994 independent films
Category:American short documentary films
Category:American independent films
Category:Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners
Category:Documentary films about the civil rights movement
Category:Films directed by Charles Guggenheim
Category:Southern Poverty Law Center
Category:1990s English-language films