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It is educational...and as someone that works in history, I can see a teacher wanting to be lazy and using "Separate But Equal" as an excuse for it... ...but I doubt I'd ever do it. I'd want my students to form an interest in movies based on historical events. I don't know…
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Separate But Equal
“The true story behind the most important legal battle of our time.”
65%
Movie
3h 6m
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Separate But Equal (1991) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of Separate But Equal (1991) — a movie tagged as History, TV Movie, and Drama with epic moods and slow-burn pacing.
Story & themes: A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation. Our models also surface themes such as war from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for solo focused viewing. Expect slow-burn storytelling (~186 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate Separate But Equal 65% (14 votes) — solid community ratings for this movie.
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Synopsis
A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
Quick facts
- Type
- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1991-04-07
- Runtime
- 3h 6m
- TMDB rating
- 6.5
- TMDB ID
- 128159
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A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
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The official runtime for Separate But Equal is approximately 186 minutes.
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Cast
Sidney Poitier
Thurgood Marshall
Burt Lancaster
John W. Davis
Richard Kiley
Chief Justice Earl Warren
Cleavon Little
Robert L. 'Bob' Carter
Gloria Foster
Vivian 'Buster' Marshall
John McMartin
Governor James F. Byrnes
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Mark Hammer
Associate Justice Stanley Forman Reed
Graham Beckel
Josiah C. Tulley
Jeffrey Wright
William Coleman
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Ed Hall
Reverend J.A. Delaine
Lynne Thigpen
Ruth Alice Stovall
Hallie Foote
Julia Davis
Macon McCalman
W.B. Springer
Randle Mell
Charles L. Black Jr.
Cheryl Lynn Bruce
Gladys Hampton
Tommy Hollis
Harry Briggs
John Rothman
NAACP Attorney Jack Greenberg
Damien Leake
Dr. Kenneth Clark
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It is educational...and as someone that works in history, I can see a teacher wanting to be lazy and using "Separate But Equal" as an excuse for it... ...but I doubt I'd ever do it. I'd want my students to form an interest in movies based on historical events. I don't know what Poitier was thinking. Watching the mini-series anyone that read the script should have instantly gotten that "made for TV crap" vibe off it. I gave it 5 stars. I mean, I can sit down and watch and enjoy it...but I can also read and enjoy Herzen's autobiography. I am a freak of nature that can enjoy some horribly dull things. It's not only impossible to shake that made-for-TV vibe...but on top of it, it feels like you're watching a Lifetime Original Movie. If you can deal with that, it's worth a watch. Otherwise there are Civil Rights movies that actually know how to make such a dramatic part of American History actually dramatic on the screen.
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