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Netflix: Release: February 17, 2021 ... abolition of slavery in the United States and ratification of the 14th amendment. 2 ... Amend: The Fight for America at IMDb
The film premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, [1] after which it was picked up by Higher Ground Productions and Netflix for theatrical and streaming distribution. [2] It continued on the festival circuit at the SXSW Festival as a Festival Favorite. [3] The film was released to select theaters and on Netflix on October 21, 2022. [4]
The film was a passion project for Ross, who spent ten years developing it. He was initially drawn to make the movie out of a desire to examine the Reconstruction era south, an era that, according to him, is poorly represented in film, quoting Gone with the Wind and The Birth of a Nation as examples of "the last movies that did it". [13]
Enslaved is a British-Canadian television documentary series, which premiered in 2020. [1] The series explores various aspects of the history of slavery in the United States, including the efforts of American actor Samuel L. Jackson to reconnect with his African heritage through DNA testing, diving projects to locate and recover shipwrecks in which at least two million African people captured ...
The film was written by Ava DuVernay, the director of Selma (2014), and Spencer Averick, who also edited the film. Produced and filmed in secrecy, the existence of 13th was only revealed when it was announced as the opening film of the 2016 New York Film Festival. It was the first documentary ever to open the festival. [7] [8]
Late in the film Ramchandani shows intentions to assign Cesar and “El Jefe” their own struggles with the “American Dream”: the former wants to attend college, while the leader of the ...
[11] [12] In September 2019, Lucius Baston joined the cast of the series in a recurring role. [13] In October 2019, Amber Gray joined the cast of the series in a recurring role. [14] In November 2019, Jim Klock joined the cast of the series in a recurring role. [15] In January 2020, Lily Rabe joined the cast of the series in a recurring role. [16]
Roots is a 2016 American miniseries and a remake of the 1977 miniseries with the same name, based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which follows an 18th-century Mandinka man who is enslaved and shipped from the Gambia to the Colony of Virginia and his descendants.