Watch A Lesson Before Dying (1999) Online

In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he didn't have the sense to know what he was doing. Nevertheless convicted, he is sentenced to die, but his godmother and the aunt of the local schoolteacher convince school teacher go to the convicted man's cell each day to try to reaffirm to him that he is not an animal but a man with dignity. Read More

Watch A Lesson Before Dying online. Featuring Don Cheadle and Cicely Tyson, A Lesson Before Dying is classified as TV Movie and Drama genre movie with an average rating across the web of 5. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in United States of America and was released on 1999. A Lesson Before Dying was directed by Joseph Sargent. Read Less