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Starr Carter navigates the perilous waters between her poor, black neighborhood and her prestigious, mainly white private school. This all changes when she finds herself in the middle of racial activism after her best friend is shot by police officers, and she's forced to make a decision. Allow the media to skewer her friend to protect the status quo, or stand up and tell the truth in memory of Khalil?
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The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: Being a better son to his mother, being a better partner to his girlfriend, and being a better father to T, their beautiful four-year-old daughter. Then he's gunned down by BART officers on New Year's Day in 2009, sending shock waves...
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Lincoln Jefferson, a Marine veteran, is stopped by police and an altercation leads to the fatal shooting of his unarmed son, KJ. Disillusioned upon learning that the officer will not be charged, and that his son was denied a fair trial, Lincoln desperately takes the matter into his own hands in a series of events he hopes will finally lead to justice for his grieving family.
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When a Chinese-American police officer kills an innocent, unarmed Black man in a darkened stairwell of a New York City housing project, it sets off a firestorm of emotion and calls for accountability. When he becomes the first NYPD officer convicted of an on-duty shooting in over a decade, the fight for justice becomes complicated, igniting one of the largest Asian-American protests in history, disrupting a legacy of solidarity, and putting an uneven...
6) Magnum force
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Detective Harry Callahan is pitted against an unexpected lawbreaker: one who carries a badge. Sharpshooting rookie motorcycle cops have turned vigilante, rubbing out crooks the courts can't touch. Their real enemy is the system. Unfortunately for them, the system is what Harry is sworn to protect.
9) Wrong cops
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Officer Duke has a bit of a problem: he accidentally shot a man while holding a teenager captive, and now he's storing the body in the trunk of his car. Luckily Office Duke fits right in with the rest of the local police force, who really couldn't care less about solving crimes and are much more interested in petty theft, blackmailing their colleagues, soliciting prostitutes, sexually harassing the community, and starting careers in electronic music....
10) Monsters and men
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The aftermath of a police killing of a black man, told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, an African-American police officer and a high-school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand.
11) Badge of honor
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It's a cold, rainy night on Seattle's east side and police officers David and Mike are about to bust in on a dangerous drug deal. Unbeknownst to them, their actions will land them at the center of an Internal Affairs investigation led by Officer Dawson. The old school police chief believes his cops are innocent, but something just doesn't fit. As Officer Dawson continues her investigation, her life is in danger. Will she survive long enough to find...
12) The tested
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A year ago, plainclothes cop Julian Varone gunned down an unarmed teen. Darraylynn Warren, the teen's mother, spiraled into a pit of despair, while his brother Dre flirted with gang life. As Julian prepares to get back to work, the three realize they cannot find closure without each other.
13) 16 shots
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"A documentary examining the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and the cover-up that ensued"--Container.
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Bruno Ganz gives a tour-de-force performance as Hoffman, an innocent bystander who survives a gunshot to the head by the police during a raid on a group of revolutionaries. To justify the shooting, the police claim he is a dangerous radical who attacked a policeman. The leftist revolutionaries in turn claim him as a hero and victim of police brutality. As Hoffman struggles to recover from the trauma to his brain and memory loss, he must try to piece...
15) Of dogs and men
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According to a Department of Justice estimate, police officers shoot and kill over 10,000 pet dogs in the US every year. It takes audiences on a journey with pet owners through the tragedy of loss and pursuit of change in a legal system in which the very officers they challenge are an integral part. ¿From SWAT raids to simple calls and even visits to wrong addresses, we are seeing more and more incidents of officers using lethal force against a family...
16) Peace officer
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"Peace officer" is a feature documentary about the increasingly militarized state of American police as told through the story of William "Dub" Lawrence, a former sheriff who established and trained his rural state's first SWAT team only to see that same unit kill his son-in-law in a controversial standoff 30 years later. Driven by an obsessed sense of mission, Dub uses his own investigative skills to uncover the truth in this and other recent officer...
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Nathaniel "Cornbread" Hamilton was the black urban dream and a hero to youngsters Wilford Robinson and Earl Carter. Shortly before he would have become the first man from his community to go to college, he demonstrates his scholarship-winning running ability to his friends and admirers in the neighborhood. At the same time, the police are on a manhunt for an armed rapist. They mistake Cornbread for the rapist and shoot him dead in the street. In the...
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Directed by Oscar-nominated and NAACP Image Award winner David Massey, this dynamic documentary features legal experts, local activists, and law enforcement officers delving into ongoing charges of inequality, unfair practices, and politicized manipulations of America's judicial system. Additionally, the Black Lives Matter movement and citizens nationwide question the staggering number of police shootings of unarmed Black men and women.
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The Butler: inspired by a true story of the White House butler who served seven presidents during the 20th century.
Fruitvale Station: A young father is killed by transit police officers in the Bay Area.
20 feet from stardom: A documentary of the triumphs and heartbreaks of music's greatest unsung talents -- the backup singer.
Mandela: Chronicling his early life, education, marriage to Winnie and the 27 year prison sentence he served before becoming...
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