Black August
2007 · 116 MIN · IMDB 6.4 · 305 VOTES · DIR. Samm Styles
Overview
The last 14 months of George Jackson's life was an 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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,280 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:13 I walk alone.
00:06:17 White folks been using niggers in too many ways, for too many years.
00:09:50 The author is accused of killing a prison guard.
00:16:36 No, no, I quit a long time ago.
00:21:00 That's it.
00:24:06 How would we do this if I wasn't here? If I wasn't in the joint?
00:28:20 I feel I'm an example to my brother and my father, you know?
00:32:05 Sometimes you get a letter in an envelope and you don't send it, you know?
00:35:46 They're afraid I'll take that revolution to the streets.
00:40:27 Well, which ones do you wanna see?
00:45:08 We're two black women...
00:48:38 To blunt the pain of being black.
00:52:47 They got ropes and knives and stuff and they were actually gonna hang this guy.
00:57:41 I did that for you, you know.
01:02:07 Now, I recall your philosophy. A war...
01:05:30 Well, there is something I can do.
01:12:58 Don't fire. Don't fire. Hold it.
01:18:07 We think it was the pigs.
01:24:48 ...to trade them in for our freedom.
01:28:55 Every last shred of energy suing you...
01:33:36 ...in spite of his best efforts...
01:37:24 That's why the pigs are shitting bricks.
01:41:06 Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Anderson.
01:48:04 We got a little something for you.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,280
Dialogue density11.0 lines / min
First line00:00:13
Final line01:48:04
Production Record
DirectorSamm Styles
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,500,000
IMDb votes305