The Loving Story

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7.7/10

978

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A racially charged trial and a heartrending love story converge in this documentary about Mildred and Richard Loving, set during the Civil Rights era.A racially charged trial and a heartrending love story converge in this documentary about Mildred and Richard Loving, set during the Civil Rights era.A racially charged trial and a heartrending love story converge in this documentary about Mildred and Richard Loving, set during the Civil Rights era.

Director
- Nancy Buirski
Writers
- Nancy Buirski
- Susie Ruth Powell
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.7/10

978

YOUR RATING

Director
- Nancy Buirski
Writers
- Nancy Buirski
- Susie Ruth Powell
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 wins & 2 nominations total

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The Loving Story

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Jane Alexander

Eleanor
(archive footage)

Lindsay Almond Jr.

Self - Virginia Governor, 1958
(archive footage)
(as J. Lindsay Almond Jr.)

Edward L. Ayers

Self - Historian and President, University of Richmond
(as Edward Ayers)

Leon M. Bazile

Self - Caroline County Circuit Court
(archive footage)
(as Judge Leon M. Bazile)

Hugo Black

Self - Associate Justice
(archive footage)

William J. Brennan

Self - Associate Justice
(archive footage)

David Brinkley

Self - NBC News, Washington
(archive sound)

Tom Clark

Self - Associate Justice
(archive footage)

Bernard S. Cohen

Self - ACLU Attorney
(archive footage)
(archive sound)

Caitlin Congdon

Self

William O. Douglas

Self - Associate Justice
(archive footage)

Ken Edwards

Self - Caroline County Deputy Sheriff
(as Kenneth Edwards)

Abe Fortas

Self - Associate Justice
(archive footage)

Raymond Green

Self - Richard's Best Friend

John M. Harlan II

Self - Associate Justice
(archive footage)

Philip J. Hirschkop

Self - ACLU Attorney
(archive footage)
(archive sound)

Ruthie Holliday

Self - Richard's Classmate

Katharine Houghton

Joey Drayton
(archive footage)

Director
- Nancy Buirski
Writers
- Nancy Buirski
- Susie Ruth Powell
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Trivia
The Lovings were a real life interracial married couple who were criminally charged under a Virginia statute banning miscegenation. By counsel of and with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Lovings brought a suit which sought to overturn the law. In 1967, the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Lovings, striking down the Virginia law, and all state anti-miscegenation laws, as unconstitutional per the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Quotes
(uncredited man on street in archive footage): Some of my best friends are niggers, if I got in to trouble, I think th... the niggers would come to me as quick as anybody else in the world. I'll give you a little instance, I was standing down on the street with a gentleman from another city last Saturday, and I recon that fifteen or twenty negros passed, and I spoke to 'em "Good morning John, how you gettin' along?" "Very well thank you Mr. Wall, gettin' on fine." And that went on for fifteen or twenty uh negros in less than fifteen minutes... and uh I... I uh... we love our people.

Connections
Edited from The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Soundtracks
Going Home
Written by Antonín Dvorák
performed by Liberia

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8/10

If Lovin' You is Wrong...

Richard (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred (Ruth Negga) fall in love and want to get married when Mildred finds out she's pregnant. It's 1958 in Carolin County, Virginia and interracial marriages are illegal. They drive to Washington, D.C. to get married where it is legal and return to Virginia. The state does not recognize the marriage and they are arrested. The Lovings story and their legal case goes to the U.S. Supreme Court and becomes a landmark case in marriage laws.

This is a movie everyone should see, it's a reminder to us all how different and difficult life was for a large part of the population or for those who did not follow societal laws.