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The Blinding of Isaac Woodard (2021)

ALL 03/30/2021 (en) Documentary 112 Min
  • Release
    03/30/2021
  • Production
    Ark Media, GBH
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  • Original title
    The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
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The event that opened the eyes of a nation.

Overview

In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and, when the police chief was acquitted by an all-white jury, the blatant injustice would change the course of American history. Based on Richard Gergel’s book Unexampled Courage, the film details how the crime led to the racial awakening of President Harry Truman, who desegregated federal offices and the military two years later. The event also ultimately set the stage for the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which finally outlawed segregation in public schools and jumpstarted the modern civil rights movement.

  1. Jamila Ephron

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Nancy Novack

    Editor

  4. Jamila Ephron

    Producer



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  1. André Holland

    Narrator (voice)

  2. Leland Gantt

    Isaac Woodward (voice)

  3. Kenneth Mack

    Himself

  4. Sherrilyn Ifill

    Herself

  5. Rawn James

    Himself

  6. Richard Gergel

    Himself

  7. Belinda Gergel

    Herself

  8. Robert Young Sr.

    Himself

  9. Patricia Sullivan

    Herself

  10. Laura Williams

    Herself

  11. Gilbert King

    Himself

  12. Kari Frederickson

    Herself

  13. J. A. De Laine Jr.

    Himself

  14. Nathanial Briggs

    Himself

  15. Harry S. Truman

    Himself (archive footage)

  16. Orson Welles

    Himself (archive footage)

  17. Isaac Woodard

    Himself (archive footage)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 17 , Crews : 12

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The Blinding of Isaac Woodard (2021) 112 Min

ALL 03/30/2021 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 03/30/2021
  • Production
    Ark Media, GBH
  • Original title The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

The event that opened the eyes of a nation.

Overview

In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and, when the police chief was acquitted by an all-white jury, the blatant injustice would change the course of American history. Based on Richard Gergel’s book Unexampled Courage, the film details how the crime led to the racial awakening of President Harry Truman, who desegregated federal offices and the military two years later. The event also ultimately set the stage for the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which finally outlawed segregation in public schools and jumpstarted the modern civil rights movement.

  1. Jamila Ephron

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Nancy Novack

    Editor

  4. Jamila Ephron

    Producer



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