Synopsis

The brutal assault on Senator Charles Sumner in the Senate chamber, the pivotal legal work of Judge J. Waties Waring in dismantling segregation, and the audacious act of the enslaved man Robert Smalls seizing control of a Confederate warship – these are but a few of the moments captured in a film featuring Patton Oswalt, Johnny Knoxville, Busy Philipps, and Brandon T. Jackson.