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Or when we do, it's bad quality or we get half of it or it's ripped from somebody's VHS.

Mine was okay.

It wasn't great.

It was okay.

And again, I just love being able to see every aspect of the filmmaking and the...

Especially when it's something as important as a period piece.

You know, I want to see the clothes and the cars and all that.

So, you know, it was a wonderful film, but I, you know, wished I could have watched it more clearly.

And of course, that is because it's a wonderful world of Disney, which, as we've talked about a thousand times, is only on the YouTubes, which is not good.

But anyway, this is the 1999 biographical drama of Revolution, Selma, Lord Selma.

It premiered on ABC on January 17th, 1999, just one day before the federal Martin Luther King Jr.

holiday, which of course was designed to happen by Disney.

The film is based on true events that took place in 1965, detailing a tragic event in Selma, Alabama, a very dark day for the civil rights movement, where hundreds of marchers led by John Lewis and Hosea Williams were met by a wall of state troopers and a posse of white locals who quickly knocked them to the ground and hit them with nightsticks and tear gas, some beaten unconscious while running away, all televised to an international audience.

17 marchers were hospitalized and 50 treated for lesser injuries.

Lewis suffered a skull fracture and one 14 year old girl needed seven stitches above her right eye and 28 on the back of her head.

The massacre became known as Bloody Sunday and pushed President Lyndon Johnson to send a voting rights bill to Congress.

Now, there have been obviously a lot of movies and books and TV shows about this very moment in American history, most famously the 2014 award winning movie Selma.

But Sabrina, did you know much about Bloody Sunday before we watched this film?

Sure.

Yeah, this was it was an important film to watch.