Separate But Equal [DVD]

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Reviewer: Kellen Payton
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great story
Review: This is underrated classic and I love it

Reviewer: Vicky in Nebraska
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent DVD
Review: This is a high quality edition. Very clear. And I like the DVD extra / historical presentation based on the events, after the movie ends.

Reviewer: Dinkydoright
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: History brought to the viewer in a profoundly beautiful enactment …
Review: A rare bit of film making intended to animate the story of “separate but equal,” from first instances and particular people’s involvement to historic legislation to who really won or achieved some kind of social victory. I’m not a great one for reading history but like many people learned far more about the Civil War from Ken Burns … though not enough of the full story of the Roosevelts and the European Jews in that Burns’ documentary. So my quest for historical understanding often comes from the artistry of enactments and dramatists and actors. This particular film is amazing. I experienced the convergence of historical opportunities and felt the frustration of all that could be realized was still inadequate. Does this make sense to you? I don’t know but I have watched this several times, often with others who also found a reality here on film, this film, that books and teachers were unable to make happen. I think this is a valuable film … this dvd is the replacement for a much used vhs tape because I knew this needed to stay in my library.I have had to replace the dvd now! Such a profound movie that I loaned it to friend who loaned it to a relative who loaned it further along in the family until no one knows where it is! Well I had to have my own copy to watch again but this time I’m NOT lending my copy to anyone. Want to see it? Come on over. We’ll watch it together.

Reviewer: Tom – Fremont, CA
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Separate But Equal
Review: Excellent movie, although it’s a little long. Thurgood Marshall is portrayed the excellent actor, Sidney Poitier. Could not have ben played so well by any other actor. Well done.

Reviewer: Otis Ritch
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A very heart warming movie
Review: I am an American Choctaw Indian Author and Spiritual Adviser. This is A very heart warming movie. The story shows the wrongs committed by prejudiced thinking and the adversity that people had to endure. It also shows how people can overcome adversity and how to do it with honor instead of violence, with love instead of hate, with prayer instead of curses. Throughout the history of the world there have been injustice, subjugation, and slavery of people. This world and the people on it are destined become perfect and to live in harmony. Eventually it will happen but it will be in the far future. Each one of us that will try to walk a path of truth, beauty, and goodness can bring enlightenment just one step closer for mankind. I have written a 10 book series of spiritual adventure novels called the SkyHawk series and in the series of novels in the form of the grand father teachings I have inserted the most profound and comprehensive essence of American Indian Spiritual Philosophy that has ever been written. The books are posted on Barnes & Noble website as e-books.

Reviewer: Loves To Read
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: REQUIRED WATCHING FOR ALL AMERICANS
Review: SEPARATE BUT EQUAL (1991-PG) is one of my favorite movies. Nominated for seven Emmy Awards. It is about the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Case. Starring Sidney Poitier as Thurgood Marshall, the lead attorney for the NAACP, Burt Lancaster, as John W. Davis, arguing the other side, and Richard Kiley, as Chief Justice Earl Warren, it is a powerful story about one of the most important Supreme Court Decisions in the history of our country. The first half is set in South Carolina and depicts the human side of that tragic law called ‘separate but equal’. They were separate but anything BUT equal. The second half is the legal battle. My only comment would be that this should be REQUIRED WATCHING to understand the background of the civil rights’ movement and the racial situation in our country. As entertaining as it is educational. Five stars all the way. Unfortunately, it’s hard to buy (VHS is still relatively cheap but very expensive on DVD). WWW.LUSREVIEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM

Reviewer: Pardon and Freed
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Burt Lancaster’s Last Movie/Love Sidney Poitier’s Movies!
Review: We love Sidney so it would not have taken much for us to like this movie. Since we saw Sidney in “The Heat of the Night” or “To Sir with Love” we have been fans. I can relate to this movie. Perhaps, Africans Americans can relate to what we (Mexican Americans) go through every day since all this controversy started with illegal immigrants crossing the Border of Mexico. For enquiring minds: all Mexican Americans (also known as Hispanics) that came over to United States before 1933 are United States Citizens (see archives.gov/research/immigration/border-mexico.html#intro) no need for a green card. Separate but Equal is a television movie. This movie is three hours long. The movie kept me interested through the whole movie. I believe this was Burt Lancaster’s last movie.

Reviewer: Client d’Amazon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Très bon témoignage de la lutte longue et périlleuse pour les droits civiques aux États Unis.

Reviewer: “norbah”
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: 1954, the year that started the modern american social revolution.It was the beginning of the end of a dark stain of US history which stems from slavery and in jurisprudence the “Plessy v. Ferguson 1896” verdict. The title above is a quote from the late US Chief Justice Earl Warren.The story is about the landmark case of “Brown v Board of Education”, the end of law sanction discrimination agains blacks in the USA. We follow it from the deep racist rural country side to the halls of the US supreme court. Sidney Potier portraits a young Thourgood Marshall, Burt Lancaster as John W. Davis andRichard Kiley as the late USSC CJ Earl Warren.The film is divided i two major parts, the pre trial history and the legal figth’s to ensure equal rigths. The total time this masterpice will take is 196 min.All of these three actors preforms geniously in this film,there heart’s and minds are in it. One of Poiters best roles and sadly Burt Lancasters last.The film gives fans of legal history, a privelige to see a major turning point in US history and the battle behind it.It has erned it’s five stars, not only by it cast and filming. But also the documentation and background work for authentisity.

Reviewer: Reader
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: “Separate But Equal”, gives an historical presentation. This is a true story about a phase in the history of the United States of America. It also stars an excellent classic Afro -American actor Sidney Poitier portraying a great American Thurgood Marshall. Highlighting the difference between black and white aspects is still an issue in US culture where history can help clarify a societal disposition by delivering a graphic foundation. It’s was a complex period of American life and remains an ongoing struggle. The movie, “Separate But Equal”, allows us to experience an episodic phase of history, even though, through a view of looking back as we get the closest we can to a hard past given the still struggling realities of today with the ongoing violent racial tensions within American culture.

Reviewer: Elmar
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Reviewer: Dr. David Woods
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: should be required study on all school history syllabi. A serious achievement which matches the formidable subject matter and is thought-provoking and engaging through out. WHY it is not more widely known and available is perhaps an indicator of how far we have yet to go. My hat is off to George Stevens Jr., the director ( and once head of the AFI) and of course son of the director of SHANE. What a family.

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