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Release Date: 2006

Cast: Gary Dourdan, LeRoy Mobley, Darren Bridgett, Cully Fredricksen, Ezra Stanley, London Freeman, Leith M. Burke, Kathy Garver

Categories: Movies, Period piece, Biography, Political drama

Black August is a 2007 drama film produced by Tcinque Sampson and directed by Samm Styles. The film centers around the story of George Jackson's life. The movie covers the last 14 months of George Jackson's life, and his 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. The movie encompasses the infamous Soledad Brothers case in... MORE

Black August is a 2007 drama film produced by Tcinque Sampson and directed by Samm Styles. The film centers around the story of George Jackson's life. The movie covers the last 14 months of George Jackson's life, and his 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. The movie encompasses the infamous Soledad Brothers case in which George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo, and John Clucheette are accused of murdering a Soledad prison guard, in retaliation for the killing of three Black inmates involved in a fight with White inmates on an exercise yard in Soledad State Prison, Soledad, California. Reflecting the general prison movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the role the Black Panther Party would play in organizing both the outside communities in America as well as their influence on prisoners across the country. George Jackson would be moved and inspired as a result of the Panther Party activities. As a prison LESS