13th (The 13th) (2016)

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7.8	Rating (68 ratings)
8.2	IMDB rating

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Ava DuVernay

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Melina Abdullah
Self - Chair, Pan-African Studies, California State University, Los Angeles

Cory Booker
Self - U.S. Senator

Angela Davis
Self - Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz

David Dinkins
Self - 106th Mayor of New York City

Henry Louis Gates
Self - Professor of History, Harvard University

Newt Gingrich
Self - 50th Speaker of the House of Representatives, 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate

Lisa Graves
Self - Executive Director, Center for Media and Democracy

Van Jones
Self - Founder, #CUT50 / Founder & President, Dream Corps

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7 years, 4 months ago at Jul 9 15:47

fernando

Good point, well explained and repeated and analized in its historic evolution: mass incarceration black oriented, in a way is a continuation of slavery. But they don't explore, don't even discuss a contestative theory: You do need to have punishment and prisons, ¿don't you? And there are also white prisononers, don't they?

A very good movie

7 years, 3 months ago at Sep 1 8:17

johanlefourbe

Since the rating were pretty high for this movie and since it was recently added to the book ‘1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die’, I was really eager to check it out. To be honest, I’m pretty sure that it will be one of these movies they add every year but which end up being removed directly the year after or at least very soon. Still, I’m glad I saw the damned thing and it was really... read more

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An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

Tags: Documentary (2), 2010s (2), Usa (1), Female Director (1), Propaganda (1), 2016 (1), Black Crime Statistics Check It (1), The Dindu Nation (1)

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"First viewing - Aug. 1st Given that August is also known as Black August in America, an annual commemoration and prison-based holiday to remember Black freedom fights and political prisoners and to highlight Black resistance against racial oppression, I felt that kicking off the month with a film focused on that history was appropriate. I've meant to check out this documentary for a while now, but kept putting it off because I wasn't in the mood or just had other films that were more of a prior"