Loving: The true story of one interracial couple's fight to marry

How Richard and Mildred Loving became reluctant civil rights campaigners to have their love recognised

Loving film
Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton star as Mildred and Richard Loving

Oscar-nominated film Loving, released today in the UK, tells the true story of an interracial couple living in the southern states of the US in the 1960s and their fight to marry.

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