Spoiler alert: Selma, in theaters now, ends on a high note, with Martin Luther King Jr. on the steps of the State Capitol in Birmingham, Ala., marking the end of a campaign that pushed Congress to ...

Selma brings Martin Luther King, Jr. to life as an all-too-human man grappling with the pressures of leading a Civil Rights revolution. The movie features exquisite performances from the likes of ...

It’s kind of amazing that it’s taken so long for a movie to be made about the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. But finally there is “Selma,” an amazing movie that is not ...

It focuses with vivid dramatic strength on the demonstrations — and political maneuvering between Martin Luther King Jr. and President Lyndon B. Johnson — that led to the 1965 federal Voting ...

Shortly before the actor David Oyelowo began shooting the part of Martin Luther King Jr. in the new historical drama "Selma," he set out on a video-hunting mission.

When Paramount’s Selma opens Dec. 25, it will do so without the support of three of the people most vested in its success — Bernice King, Dexter Scott King and Martin Luther King III.

Martin Luther King Jr. finally gets the big-screen treatment he deserves, with David Oyelowo's performance anchoring a powerful recreation of the 1965 Alabama march for voting rights.

Martin Luther King Day 2015 coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act and the release of Selma, a film about King's perilous march in support of the bill.

The children of Martin Luther King Jr. have been fairly quiet so far on the subject of Paramount's "Selma," the Ava DuVernay-directed drama about their father's 1965 voting-rights march through ...

David Oyelowo as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in “Selma.” Atsushi Nishijima “Do the Right Thing” This 1989 Spike Lee modern classic isn’t about MLK, but it is about racial tension in a ...

David Oyelowo talks about playing Martin Luther King Jr. in the Oscar-nominated film Selma — as well as the LBJ controversy, slavery and how he learned about what it's like to be black in America.

Because Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches are copyrighted — and licensed to another project — the film was made without his famous quotes, his licensed life story or the blessing of his child… ...