This innovative fusion of scripted film, combined with real and fictional documentary footage, brings a watershed moment in Civil Rights history to vivid life for contemporary viewers. As seen in an unusual multimedia format, Boycott dramatizes the true events that were triggered in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks (Iris Little-Thomas) was arrested after refusing to surrender her seat in a "whites only" section of a public bus.

Using Parks' courageous act as a rallying cry, a group of black leaders in the city quickly organized a boycott of Montgomery buses. Led by a charismatic young minister named Martin Luther King, Jr. (Jeffrey Wright), the city's black community refused to ride public buses, opting instead to walk or car-pool to their destinations. The boycott was tested by extreme pressure from city officials, acts of violence that included the bombing of King's home, and the eventual indictment of King and over 100 other black leaders.

Yet the boycott held, and on November 13, 1956 -- nearly a year after Parks' defiant act -- the Supreme Court struck down the city's bus-segregation laws as unconstitutional. The Montgomery boycott ended victoriously after 381 days -- and the Civil Rights movement found its leader in Martin Luther King, Jr.

In retelling the story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the film uses innovative production techniques to speak to today's young audience, combining a talented cast and accessible script with multimedia imagery, verite camera work (color and black and white), documentary footage, and a pulsating score. The result sets Boycott apart from any other film ever made about America's Civil Rights movement; it tells the story from inside the movement, shedding light on the different interests and personalities that shaped it.

More than the story of Rosa Parks, Boycott is a portrait of the practical evolution of the non-violent ideologies of young leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph David Abernathy (Terrence Howard), seen here as vulnerable young men filled with as many doubts as they have convictions. This powerful film vividly evokes the tension, energy and excitement of a unique episode in American history. Jeffrey Wright, Terrence Howard, CCH Pounder and Carmen Ejogo co-star in this ground breaking drama directed by Clark Johnson.