The Defender

Movie
The Defender
NR
Scipio Africanus Jones was a courageous attorney who risked his life and career to defend 87 men wrongfully accused of murder in the wake of the Elaine, AR massacre of 1919, when a group of Black sharecroppers meeting in a church about unionization were attacked by a posse organized by white landowners.
StarringSterling K. Brown
DirectorGeorge Tillman Jr.
WriterE. Nicholas Mariani

Movie Details

Original Language:English
Production Companies:Searchlight Pictures