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Black August

For political prisoner George Jackson, revolution was not a choice... it was a necessity

5.2 average rating
5.2
English / 116 MIN. / 2007

The Genres

The Synopsis

The last 14 months of George Jackson's life was an existence under subjective and objective conditions in California's industrial prison complex. George Jackson would spend 11 years in jail (7 of which were in solitary confinement) for a $70 gas station robbery crime in 1960. He was 18 years of age when the sentence of one year-to-life was handed down to him.

The Cast

Gary DourdanDarren BridgettEzra J. Stanley'Big' LeRoy MobleyVonetta McGeeDon WilliamsGreg GibbsLeith M. BurkeCabran E. ChamberlainCully FredricksenLondon FreemanKathy GarverBob GreeneMichael GreggansTim HeinrichCharlie HollidayCal JohnsonJohn KovacevichJonté LeGrasHeather MathiesonMelia MillsPatrick MinderlerTina Marie MurrayRobert ParsonsFred PittsAllen PontesPeggy SandowBob SáenzJoe TallaricoReid Garver Travis

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