13th (2016)
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13th (2016)

Genre
Documentary
Release Date
October 07, 2016
Studio
Netflix
Official Site
http://www.netflix.com/title/80091741
Genre
Documentary
Release Date
October 07, 2016
MPAA Rating
R
Duration
100 minute(s)
Production Budget
-
Studio
Netflix
Official Site
http://www.netflix.com/title/80091741
Director
Ava DuVernay
Producer
Spencer Averick, Howard Barish, Ava DuVernay

The title of Ava DuVernay's extraordinary and galvanizing documentary "13th" refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States."

The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison industry is laid out by DuVernay with bracing lucidity. With a potent mixture of archival footage and testimony from a dazzling array of activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men, DuVernay creates a work of grand historical synthesis.