Selma, Lord, Selma (television) Two-hour television movie, aired on The Wonderful World of Disney on January 17, 1999. Two little girls remember the infamous and violent Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, during the tumultuous American civil rights movement of the 1960s, when freedom fighters organize a black registration march amidst Southern violence, hatred, racial prejudice, and the ever-present threat of the Ku Klux Klan. Directed by Charles Burnett. Stars Mackenzie Astin (Jonathan Daniels), Jurnee Smollett (Sheyann Webb), Clifton Powell (Martin Luther King, Jr.), Ella Joyce (Betty Webb), Yolanda King (Miss Bright), Stephanie Peyton (Rachel West). Ms. King is the daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. Released on video in 2000.