The Boys in Red Hats

Name: The Boys in Red Hats
Genre: Documentary
Released: July 16, 2021
Duration: 87 min

2021

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Shark Dog Films | Release Date: July 16, 2021 | Not Rated

Summary: After a 2019 confrontation between a student from Kentucky's elite Covington Catholic High School and a Native American elder on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial goes viral, filmmaker Jonathan Schroder sets out to understand the incident, the media’s obsession with it and the larger ramifications for both one small Kentucky community andAfter a 2019 confrontation between a student from Kentucky's elite Covington Catholic High School and a Native American elder on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial goes viral, filmmaker Jonathan Schroder sets out to understand the incident, the media’s obsession with it and the larger ramifications for both one small Kentucky community and our country as a whole. The Boys in Red Hats deftly explores the media’s insistence on immediacy over accuracy, the danger in prioritizing intent over impact and what it’s going to take if we ever hope to bridge the deep divides in our communities—and our country.… Expand

Director: Jonathan Schroder

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 min

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RogerEbert.com Robert Daniels

Jul 16, 2021

The Boys in Red Hats is a necessary watch that elicits frustration by exposing our insular ideology with a raw aplomb. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Jul 15, 2021

Between a bro-friendly voice-over and “TMZ Live”-style bull sessions with his producer, Schroder’s exploratory pose comes to feel exasperatingly clueless. Yet the film also assembles soothingly sharp commentators who lay bare the power and race dynamics and aggression at play in the Lincoln Memorial encounter. Read full review

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