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I mean, someone cuts me off.

So, yes, this is going to be, again, a different film that we're watching this week.

And we've done a couple of these now that have kind of, again, looked at something going on in the world.

Usually, you know, color friendship comes to mind where, you know, it was about apartheid.

And so looking at these incredible things that are happening, these horrible things that are happening throughout the world through the eyes of a child, again, is a much different take.

And Disney does it well.

So Selma, Lord Selma is based on a 1980 book of the same name written by Cheyenne Webb and Rachel West and, of course, Frank Sikora, published by the University of Alabama.

Disney Pictures optioned the memoir, hoping MLK Day could coincide with its release.

The book was a memoir from Webb and West, two children who witnessed the day as children and are, of course, the main characters of the story.

Compared to some of our past recaps, this film obviously holds a bit more emotional heft and violence than we usually see.

But that was always the best part of the Disney Channel produced films.

You know, they just did it.

The genres and emotions ran the gamut in this one.

Viewers got to learn something.

It wasn't Fuzzbucket, to say the least.

critics, so we're not so sold on it.

They were mixed.

However, it was nominated for the Humanities Prize, which you might remember Color of Friendship did win.

It was also nominated for an NAACP Image Award.

During researching the movie, it does seem like a lot of schools show this movie to students during Black History Month, which is great because that means they probably have VHS copies out there because, as we said, as is the case with most wonderful Disney films, watching it can be a bit of a scavenger hunt.