Black August

Name: Black August
Director: Samm Styles
Genre: Drama
Released: 2007
Rating: 5.2
Cast: Gary Dourdan, Darren Bridgett, Ezra J. Stanley, 'Big' LeRoy Mobley, Vonetta McGee

"For political prisoner George Jackson, revolution was not a choice... it was a necessity"

5.2/10

2007

1h 56m

Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Gary Dourdan

Darren Bridgett

Ezra J. Stanley

'Big' LeRoy Mobley

Vonetta McGee

Don Williams

Greg Gibbs

Leith M. Burke

Black August

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