• StatusReleased
  • Release Date2000-05-31
  • Runtime80 minutes
  • TaglineIn 1921, the "Oil Capital of the World" had a population of 100,000... and a Ku Klux Klan with a membership of over 3,000.
  • RevenueNot Available
  • GenreDocumentary
  • Production
    CompaniesCinemax Reel Life, Barrister Productions, L.C.
  • BudgetNot Available

Movie Overview

Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With testimony by eyewitnesses and background accounts by historians.

Casts

Ed Asner

Roscoe Lee Browne

Nell Carter

Rae Dawn Chong

Bill Cobbs

Bill Cosby

Mike Farrell

Celeste Holm

Mary Kay Place

Dale Robertson

Mary Steenburgen

Courtney B. Vance

John Vernon

Alfre Woodard