The read
It runs a compact 1h 23m.
Synopsis
In this feature-length documentary from FRONTLINE and Retro Report, an unsolved 1960s murder reveals an untold story of the civil rights movement and Black resistance. “American Reckoning” examines Black opposition to racist violence in Mississippi, spotlighting a little-known armed resistance group called the Deacons for Defense and Justice, woven alongside the Jackson family’s decades-long search for justice amid a federal effort to investigate civil rights era cold cases.
Ratings
TMDB8/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Brad LichtensteinDirector
- Brad LichtensteinWriter
- Yoruba RichenDirector
- Yoruba RichenWriter