Based on the life of Martin Luther King Jr., Selma describes the period when the civil rights activist sought to gain equal voting rights for African Americans. It stars David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Giovanni Ribisi, and Oprah Winfrey. Specific scenes were filmed at the places they occurred in real life, such as Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma and the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta.
Filmed In: Montgomery and Selma, Alabama; Acworth, Atlanta, Conyers, Covington and Marietta, Georgia
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