Everlasting: Life and Legacy of Medgar Evers
Everlasting honors Medgar Evers’ legacy, offering a moving portrait of his civil rights fight.
2025 · 1h 57m Documentary, History
Overview
An MPB Original Production honoring the life, work, and impact of one of Mississippi’s most courageous voices. This powerful two-hour documentary features interviews with Evers’ family, colleagues, and historians. Everlasting offers a moving, personal look at his legacy in the fight for civil rights.
Director and cast
More films
Malcolm X (1992)
Drama · History · PG-13
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
- Runtime
- 3h 22m
- Director
- Spike Lee
- Cast
- Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall
The Red Elvis (2007)
Documentary · N/A
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Director
- Leopold Grün
- Cast
- Dean Reed, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Celino Bleiweiß
Bloody Sunday (2002)
Drama · History · R
The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Director
- Paul Greengrass
- Cast
- James Nesbitt, Allan Gildea, Gerard Crossan
Danton (1983)
Drama · History · PG
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the Fre...
- Runtime
- 2h 16m
- Director
- Andrzej Wajda
- Cast
- Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Patrice Chéreau
Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution (2008)
Documentary · N/A
The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating light in the anniversary year 2008. The film is a provocative reckoning with the ideological upbringing that seemed so progressive and yet was suffocated by the children's desire to finally grow up. With an ironic eye and a feuilletonist...
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Director
- André Schäfer
Comments
Talk about the film with other members