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    The Loving Story

    2011 · Documentary · 1h 17m

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      • While the legal dramas that unfold in this documentary are certainly compelling, it's the Lovings themselves who remain in the viewers' memories. The archival footage of Richard and Mildred Loving in their home with their kids in rural Virginia inherently reveals the deep love they held for each other.
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  1. THE LOVING STORY is a documentary that tells the story of the landmark Supreme Court case, Loving v Virginia, that overturned state laws banning interracial marriage. It tells the story of Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Loving, who was part African American and part Native American, a couple from rural Virginia who fell in love and ...

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  3. Brilliant debut film about a landmark case on miscegenation, reminiscent in many ways of the struggle for gay marriage today. Full Review | Nov 23, 2012. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer...

  4. In 1958, Richard and Mildred Loving are arrested for violating Virginia's anti-miscegenation laws, eventually leading to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on interracial marriage. Prime...

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  5. Mildred Delores Loving (née Jeter; July 22, 1939 – May 2, 2008) and Richard Perry Loving (October 29, 1933 – June 29, 1975) were an American married couple who were the plaintiffs in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia (1967). Their marriage has been the subject of three movies, including the 2016 drama Loving, and ...

  6. Film Synopsis. When Mildred and Richard Loving were arrested in July 1958, in Virginia, for violating a state law that banned marriage between people of different races, such laws had been on the books in most states since the seventeenth century.

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