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100 Years From Mississippi (2021)

Movie"A true story of resilience forgiveness memory and hope"
Mamie Lang Kirkland still remembers the night in 1915 when panic filled her home in Ellisville Mississippi Her family was forced to flee in darkness from a growing mob of men determined to lynch her father and his friend Mamies family escaped but her fathers friend John Hartfield did not He suffered one of the most horrific lynchings of the era Mamie vowed to never return to Mississippi until now After one hundred years Mamies youngest child filmmaker Tarabu Betserai Kirkland takes his mother back to Ellisville to tell her story honor those who succumbed to the terror of racial violence and give testimony to the courage and hope epitomized by many of her generation
StarringMamie KirklandTarabu Betserai KirklandBarry Shabaka Henley
DirectorTarabu Betserai Kirkland
WriterTarabu Betserai Kirkland

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:May 6th, 2021
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Paul Mones, Ellie Kanner, Harrison Engle, Lewis Cohen, Paulina Sahagun-Macias, Mamie Kirkland, Nicole Mones, Patty Hirota-Cohen, Julie Mount