CUBA GOODING JR

SELMA (2015)
Starring David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Giovanni Ribisi, Oprah Winfrey, Tim Roth and Cuba Gooding Jr. Directed by Ava Duvernay.

The story of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic struggle to secure voting rights for African-Americans - a dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated in the epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama that galvanised American public opinion and persuaded President Johnson to introduce the Voting Rights Act in 1965. 2015 is the 50th anniversary of this pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement.

THE BUTLER (2013)
Starring Forest Whittaker - Cecil Gaines, Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda, John Cusack, Cuba Gooding Jr, Robin Williams, Alan Rickman, James Marsden, Liev Schreiber and Melissa Leo. Directed by Lee Daniels.

For three decades, Cecil Gaines served as the chief butler for eight consecutive U.S. presidents, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Working intimately with these world leaders at the White House, from his unique vantage point Cecil Gaines witnessed radical transformations in American history through the civil rights movement to Vietnam and the Cold War - and how those changes affected his life and family.

REVIEWS The Butler - An extraordinary slice of history