‘The Loving Story’ Is Necessary History Strengthened By Extraordinary Footage

Nancy Buirski's directorial debut revives Hope Ryden's unfinished documentary about a mixed-race couple's civil rights journey for a must-see piece of historical verite.

If you wrote an original romantic screenplay called The Loving Story and the main characters were named Mildred and Richard Loving, that’d seem pretty cheesy. But there’s nothing bogus about the “epunymous” title of an incredibly essential documentary focused on the story of the Lovings, an interracial couple whose union in 1958 led to their arrest, con…