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2016 100 min ★ 7.8 Documentary

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

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Cast

Jelani Cobb

Self

Angela Davis

Self

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Self

Michelle Alexander

Self

Cory Booker

Self - U.S. Senator (D) New Jersey

Marie Gottschalk

Self

Michael Hough

Self

Gina Clayton

Self

David Keene

Self

James Kilgore

Self

Details

Director

Ava DuVernay

Tagline

"From slave to criminal with one amendment."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

Kandoo Films, MakeMake

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

September 17, 2026

★ 6/10

With something like one quarter of the world's prison population being incarcerated in the USA, this documentary attempts to break down that fairly startling statistic and analyse just whether history and historical attitudes and prejudices have been instrumental in arriving at this situation. Crossing generations and centuries, the narrative postulates that much of this is down to grievances betw...