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Series Details & Credits
| BET - Black Entertainment Television | Paramount Network | Paramount | Release Date: July 30, 2018 |
Summary:
The six-part documentary series features home videos, family photos, and news footage about the life of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who was killed in 2012.
Genre(s):
Movie/Mini-Series, News/Documentary, Documentary
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Jul 26, 2018
Season 1 Review:
You may think you know the story, but the accumulation of detail, in new interviews and video and audio clips in this six-part documentary from producer Shawn Carter (also known to the world as musician and mogul Jay-Z), begins like a light snow fall and turns into a bracing nor’easter.
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Jul 30, 2018
Season 1 Review:
A potent, moving six-part documentary offering fresh insight into the 2012 killing of unarmed teen Martin by 28-year-old vigilante George Zimmerman. ... It’s the way in which directors Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason connect new and old details of the case with its wide-spread effect that makes Rest in Power a comprehensive, emotional and brutally honest look at America since that fatal shooting.
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Jul 31, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Gutting. ... Rest in Power is more than just a record of Martin’s brief life and shocking death: It’s a call to action. Furst and Willoughby Nason’s work is an overwhelming collage of interviews, audio recordings and video footage, expertly stitched together to tell the story of a Skittles-carrying black teenager who was confronted by a paranoid neighborhood watchman and shot during their altercation.
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Jul 30, 2018
Season 1 Review:
It’s all far too much to cover in 44 minutes, and the last episode of Rest in Power feels like a conversation that gets cut off mid-sentence. What started as an effort to record a moment in history became, by the end, a documentary of the moment we’re living now. If ever a series had enough material for a second season, sadly this is it.
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IndieWire
Jul 30, 2018
The Daily Beast
Jul 31, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The series, directed by Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason and produced by Jay-Z, doesn’t add much new information to the existing narrative. It doesn’t need to. Instead, it takes a heartbreaking, in-depth look at the shooting more than six years later—and the state of race relations in America today.
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Aug 6, 2019
A powerful, emotional re-telling of the tragic death of a child at the hands of a gun-nut fanatic and how no justice was found in the face of a storm of racists. If this doesn't tell the story of every black person in America and what they face day in and day out, I have no idea what would.
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