The Rosa Parks Story (DVD, 2003)

This is a docudrama story about a nonviolence trained Civil Rights activist during the 1950's-60's US white supremacism violence; especially in the ultra bigoted US South. Rosa Parks (played by Angela Bassett) refused to get up when an abusive bus driver told her to do so, in order to give a white man her seat. Unlike the myth that she was sitting in the front, whites-only section and told by the abusive bus driver to go to the black-back, this fiction gets the story more right than not. Parks simply refused to give up her seat in December of 1955, because she refused to cooperate with Montgomery Alabama's white supremacist violence. She was trained by leaders of the nonviolence movement to refuse gracefully. It was no accident that she refused to cooperate with the bus driver's violence. She was well trained to treat violent white supremacism with nonviolence.

This led directly to the Montgomery Bus Boycott which literally crippled the city's public transportation system. And the success of this public transit boycott ed to the US Civil Rights movement becoming a soulforce to reckon with.

There is a better movie that is a documentary from the Southern Poverty Law Center that tells the story by people who were actually part of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. But the best part of that movie is that children tell the story, and it is factual without any docudrama junk in it. Rev. Bob Graetz, a white Lutheran minister, stars in that factual version. His home was bombed twice for being a white minister urging on the people of color to take their freedom.

For a docudrama, this one is okay.