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Prison film [98] Raising Arizona: Joel Coen: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson: United States: Crime comedy [99] Rampage: William Friedkin: Michael Biehn, Alex McArthur, Nicholas Campbell: United States [100] A Short Film About Killing: Krzysztof Kieślowski: Mirosław Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz: Poland: Crime drama [101] The ...
The 1980 Miami riots (also called the Arthur McDuffie riots) were race riots that occurred in Miami, Florida, starting in earnest on May 18, 1980, [1] following an all-White male jury acquitting five white Dade County Public Safety Department officers in the death of Arthur McDuffie (December 3, 1946 – December 21, 1979), a Black insurance salesman and United States Marine Corps lance corporal.
Hide in Plain Sight (1980) – drama film based on an actual case from the files of New York attorney Salvatore R. Martoche who represented Tom Leonard, a real-life Buffalo, New York, victim who had sued to recover contact with his children estranged by the culpability of the new husband and government, soon realizing his own past is coming ...
The 1982 Overtown riot was a period of civil unrest in Miami, Florida, United States, from December 28 to 30, 1982.The riot was caused by the shooting death of an African American man in the city's Overtown neighborhood by a Latino police officer on December 28, leading to three days of disorder that resulted in one additional death, numerous injuries and arrests, and widespread property damage.
The Black Hat Club [1] in Idabel, Oklahoma, was a whites-only club operating on the Black side of town. [2] The club attracted racial incidents. [1]Late January 19, 1980, a group of local Black youths: 15-year-old Henry Lee Johnson, his 13-year-old brother Victor, and other teenage boys entered the parking lot of the club through a hole in the gate.
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Race riots in Miami include a series of violent events that occurred in Miami mainly through the 1980s. After desegregation , much of the racial violence in Miami had calmed only to be reignited by the 1980s. [ 1 ]
Downtown 81 is a 2000 American film that was shot in 1980-1981. [3] The film was directed by Edo Bertoglio and written and produced by Glenn O'Brien and Patrick Montgomery, with post-production in 1999-2000 by Glenn O'Brien and Maripol. It is a rare real-life snapshot of an ultra-hip subculture of post-punk era Manhattan.