Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

Scottsboro An American Tragedy is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Daniel Anker and Barak Goodman. The film is based on one of the longestrunning and most controversial courtroom pursuits of racism in American history, which led to nine black teenaged men being wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in Alabama. The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature.

Directors Daniel Anker and Barak Goodman said they were inspired to make the documentary by James Goodmans 1994 publication Stories of Scottsboro, and understood that their film would be reopening old wounds. Before the filmmaking, they researched for five years looking for materials concerning the courtroom pursuit. Anker and Goodman found the eyewitnesses of the event, as well as a record of courtroom photographs, trial transcripts, and archival newsreel footage kept in the Soviet Union. The research was funded by television network Public Broadcasting Services series American Experience. The title of the film is speculated by the media to have been inspired by the 1969 historian book Scottsboro A Tragedy of the American South. by Dan T. Carter.Scottsboro An American Tragedy was narrated by Andre Braugher. It used trial transcripts and editorials which are voiced by Frances McDormand, Stanley Tucci, Harris Yulin, Jeffrey DeMunn and Daver Morrison. The film was coproduced by American Experience and Social Media Productions and distributed by Cowboy Pictures. ........

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