Atlanta-Fulton’s Central Library will show the movie “The Colt” on Wednesday as part of a film series commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The 2005 made-for-TV movie, based on a short story by Mikhail Sholokhov, is about a Union soldier who refuses orders to shoot a newborn foal.

It starts at 4 p.m. at One Margaret Mitchell Square, downtown Atlanta. Information: 404-730-1700.

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Austin Walters died from an overdose in 2021 after taking a Xanax pill laced with fentanyl, his father said. A new law named after Austin and aimed at preventing deaths from fentanyl has resulted in its first convictions in Georgia, prosecutors said. (Family photo)

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