13th
From slave to criminal with one amendment
The film begins with the idea that 25 percent of the people in the world who are incarcerated are incarcerated in the U.S. Although the U.S. has just 5% of the world's population. '13th' charts the explosive growth in America's prison population; in 1970, there were about 200,000 prisoners; today, the prison population is more than 2 million. The documentary touches on chattel slavery; D. W. Griffith's film 'The Birth of a Nation'; Emmett Till; the civil rights movement; the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Richard M. Nixon; and Ronald Reagan's declaration of the war on drugs and much more.
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
Melina Abdullah
Self
Self - Chair, Pan-African Studies, California State University, Los Angeles
Cory Booker
Self
Self - U.S. Senator (D) New Jersey
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Jelani Cobb
Self
Self - Professor of African-American Studies, University of Connecticut
Angela Davis
Self
Self - Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz
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David Dinkins
Self
Self - 106th Mayor of New York City (D)
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Jason Moran
Composer
Hans Charles
Cinematographer
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Kira Kelly
Cinematographer
