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Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America (2021)
For those who know little or nothing about Attica
This gripping film reveals so much more about the Attica than most people who were around then ever knew. For many, "Attica!" is nothing but a chant in an Al Pacino movie. Entire generations have now grown up immersed in a culture of mass incarceration, and have never heard of Attica. This film grows more important with each passing day and each questionable conviction.
Cincinnati Goddamn (2015)
Powerful and Important
I've seen a lot of documentaries, and this is among the best, the most powerful I've ever seen. It chronicles a series of trials, the civil unrest and the collaborative agreement reached to address police violence, after fifteen Black men were killed by Cincinnati, Ohio police in the six-year period between 1995 and 2001. We see an anatomy of civil unrest, and foreshadowing of what would come in the years following Ferguson. The film suggests that some things have changed, while others have not. Through interviews with many of the players, and use of archival TV news video, the film illustrates what's happening all over the United States. A film that needs to be widely seen, and periodically updated ala Michael Apted's Up series.