Till Movie Questions in English | Movie Guide Questions in Chronological Order
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31 Movie Guide Questions in chronological order that include pre-listening essential questions, questions to answer during the movie, and reflection/analysis questions that can also serve as discussion questions after the movie. Product is written 100% in ENGLISH.
Includes Answer Key and Product is editable to increase or decrease rigor. Also includes images to help scaffold for diverse learners.
Synopsis:
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was brutally lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.
Mamie Till becomes one of the leading educators and activists in the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement after her 14-year-old son, Emmett, is kidnapped by two men who left with Till after a person in a waiting car with a “lighter voice than a man’s” identified him as that boy. The movie portrays that the person in the car was Carolyn Bryant though this was never proven. Emmett was thrown into the Tallahatchie River with a 75lb cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire by white supremacists in 1955 for whistling at Bryant, while visiting his cousins in Money, Mississippi. Mamie insists that the casket containing her son's brutalized body be left open to show the nation what they had done to him. The film is told entirely from her perspective; Emmett's murder is heard, but not shown in the film
About the film:
Rating:PG-13
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Director: Chinonye ChukwuProducer:
Keith Beauchamp, Barbara Broccoli, Whoopi Goldberg, Thomas Levine, Michael Reilly, Frederick Zollo
Writer: Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp, Chinonye Chukwu
Release Date (Theaters):
Oct 28, 2022 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 22, 2022
Box Office (Gross USA): $9.0M
Runtime: 2h 10m
Distributor: United Artists Releasing
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Great for: African American Experience, Blacks in America, Black History Month, Freedom, Chicago, Mississippi and more!
