Silver Dollar Road

Name: Silver Dollar Road
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 13, 2023
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 77

2023

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Release Date: October 13, 2023 | PG

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Streams on Prime Video beginning October 20, 2023.

Summary: Based on the ProPublica article, the documentary recounts the riveting narrative of the Reels family, led by the matriarch fondly known as "Mamie." Ever since the days following emancipation, the Reels family dedicated themselves to farming, fishing, and painstakingly forging a sustainable existence upon their expansive parcel of landBased on the ProPublica article, the documentary recounts the riveting narrative of the Reels family, led by the matriarch fondly known as "Mamie." Ever since the days following emancipation, the Reels family dedicated themselves to farming, fishing, and painstakingly forging a sustainable existence upon their expansive parcel of land nestled along the coastal reaches of North Carolina's Silver Dollar Road. Their unwavering stance led to their wrongful conviction for civil contempt in 2011, resulting in the harshest sentence ever issued for such an offense in North Carolina - eight long years behind bars. Finally released in 2019, Mamie, Melvin, and Licurtis continue their arduous struggle to reclaim the land that was unjustly ripped from their ancestral embrace. [Amazon Studios]… Expand

Director: Raoul Peck

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: PG

Runtime: 100 min

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RogerEbert.com Robert Daniels

Sep 12, 2023

While this documentary doesn’t rise to the level of his masterwork “Exterminate All the Brutes,” the pain and anger, resolve, and courage that Peck captures in Silver Dollar Road make it a complex, intense document of the persistence of Black existence in a world hell-bent on erasure. Read full review

Andrew Crump

Oct 23, 2023

Some documentaries would be better off as written journalism. Silver Dollar Road complements Presser’s work with Peck’s erudition and humane touch. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Oct 15, 2023

Peck’s film – which, with its themes of race and failures of American justice, has a kinship with Ava DuVernay’s 13th and Garrett Bradley’s Time – is both infuriating and also unexpectedly uplifting in its celebration of family unity. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Oct 19, 2023

Amid the looming threats to a cherished home, Peck’s accomplishment is to let the Reels family own their emotional space. Read full review

Robert Abele

Oct 15, 2023

If your recipe for outrage needs a villainous presence, Peck isn’t interested in stoking it that way, and shouldn’t need to. That’s not the oxygen Silver Dollar Road, building off a 2019 ProPublica article by Lizzie Presser, wants to breathe. Rather, it’s the warmth, togetherness and persistence of a family fighting a ruthlessly unfair system, holding onto each other as forces move to expel them. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Oct 19, 2023

When it comes to its central legal struggle, though, it leaves out so many crucial details that it cuts itself off at the knees. Read full review

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