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Son of the South

Founding grandson without a father...

Rating 6.5 / 10Release February 5, 2021Runtime 104 min

In civil rights era Montgomery, Alabama, Klansman's grandson Bob Zellner must choose which side of history to be on during the Movement. Defying his family and white Southern norms, he fought against social injustice, repression and violence to change the world around him

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