Deacons for Defense

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Deacons for Defense is a 2003 television drama film about an armed African American self-defense group protecting civil rights activists in 1960s Louisiana.

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instanceOf television film
basedOn Deacons for Defense and Justice NERFINISHED
real events
cinematographyBy Paul Sarossy NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Bill Duke NERFINISHED
distributor Showtime Networks NERFINISHED
editedBy Ronald Sanders NERFINISHED
executiveProducer Bill Duke NERFINISHED
Forest Whitaker NERFINISHED
Michael Switzer NERFINISHED
genre drama
hasTheme armed self-defense in civil rights era
community resistance to white supremacy
musicBy Stephen James Taylor NERFINISHED
originalLanguage English
originalNetwork Showtime NERFINISHED
producer William D. Johnson NERFINISHED
William S. Gilmore NERFINISHED
releaseDate 2003-02-16
releaseYear 2003
runtimeMinutes 99
screenwriter Frank Military
Richard Wesley NERFINISHED
settingLocation Louisiana NERFINISHED
settingTime 1960s
starring Adam Weiner NERFINISHED
Anysha Berthot NERFINISHED
Arthur Eng NERFINISHED
Arthur Grosser NERFINISHED
Arthur Holden NERFINISHED
Chris Britton NERFINISHED
Claudia Besso NERFINISHED
David Huband NERFINISHED
Djanet Sears NERFINISHED
Eugene A. Clark NERFINISHED
Forest Whitaker NERFINISHED
Gene Mack NERFINISHED
Harry Standjofski NERFINISHED
Howard Rosenstein NERFINISHED
Hugh Thompson NERFINISHED
John Koensgen NERFINISHED
Jonathan Silverman NERFINISHED
Kwasi Songui NERFINISHED
Kwesi Ameyaw NERFINISHED
Lynn Adams NERFINISHED
Martin Roach NERFINISHED
Mpho Koaho NERFINISHED
Nancy Sorel NERFINISHED
Ossie Davis NERFINISHED
Paul Benjamin NERFINISHED
Peter MacNeill NERFINISHED
Ralph Prosper NERFINISHED
Robert Brewster NERFINISHED
Robert Crooks NERFINISHED
Robert Higden NERFINISHED
Tyrone Benskin NERFINISHED
Vlasta Vrana NERFINISHED
subjectMatter African-American self-defense
civil rights movement
racism in the United States

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Bill Duke directed Deacons for Defense