Black August

Name: Black August
Genre: drama
Released: 2007
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 5.9
Cast: Gary Dourdan, Darren Bridgett, Ezra J. Stanley, 'Big' LeRoy Mobley, Vonetta McGee

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Chronicles George Jackson's final months, prison conditions, and the political movements surrounding his life and death.

Drama · 5.9/10 · 116 min · 2007

The last 14 months of George Jackson's life was an existence under subjective and objective conditions in California's industrial prison complex. George Jackson would spend 11 years in jail (7 of which were in solitary confinement) for a $70 gas station robbery crime in 1960. He was 18 years of age when the sentence of one year-to-life was handed down to him.

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director

Samm Styles
writer

TCinque J. Sampson
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as George Jackson

Gary Dourdan
actor

as David Dryer

Darren Bridgett
actor

as Jonathan Jackson

Ezra J. Stanley

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