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13th (2016)

Genre

Documentary

Release Date

October 7, 2016

Studio

Netflix

Official Site

http://www.netflix.com/title/80091741

Information

Genre

Documentary

Release Date

October 7, 2016

MPAA Rating

R

Duration

100 minute(s)

Production Budget

-

Studio

Netflix

Official Site

http://www.netflix.com/title/80091741

Cast and Crew

Director

Ava DuVernay

Producer

Spencer Averick, Howard Barish, Ava DuVernay

Screenwriter

Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick

Starring

Jelani Cobb
Angela Davis
Henry Louis Gates
Jr.
Michelle Alexander
Cory Booker
Marie Gottschalk
Michael Hough
Gina Clayton
David Keene
James Kilgore

Synopsis

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.

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