ABSTRACT
The film tells the story of the difficult but ultimately successful 1963 campaign led by Martin Luther King to register African American voters in Alabama. The depiction of the attitude of President Lyndon Johnson towards the proposed march became a hot issue that was widely debated. The film shows the two men half clashing, half agreeing in both the Oval Office of the White House and in various phone conversations. The dramatic film, as argued throughout the work, is a poor medium for the delivery of traditional data. Criticisms about the lack of accuracy like those about Selma continue to be voiced about history films made in the twenty-first century, a rich period for the genre in which one or two such works have been in the running for major film awards every year. A good deal of the criticism of history films arises from the notion that 'history' resides primarily in the accuracy of detail.
