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Silver Dollar Road is a 2023 American documentary film written, directed and co-produced by Raoul Peck, based on the ProPublica (in collaboration with The New Yorker) article "Kicked Off The Land" by Lizzie Presser.
Oct 21, 2023 · In his documentary ‘Silver Dollar Road,’ director Raoul Peck recounts the family history of the Reels family. Gertrude Reels, the family’s matriarch, inherited 65 acres of land from her father, Mitchell, who got it from his father, Elijah.
Oct 19, 2023 · The 20th century saw a mass dispossession of Black farmers. This intimate documentary focuses on one family’s recent battle to keep their home in North Carolina. Licurtis Reels, who was jailed ...
Finally released in 2019, Mamie, Melvin, and Licurtis continue their arduous struggle to reclaim the land that was unjustly ripped from their ancestral embrace. The documentary releases in select...
Through their harrowing story, “Silver Dollar Road” mirrors Garrett Bradley’s “Time,” another film about the crushing toll the justice system places primarily on Black folk. With each passing year of their detainment, the heartache accompanying missed Christmases and stolen days grows bigger.
Oct 16, 2023 · The Reels family, led by the matriarch fondly known as “Mamie”, are fighting the good fight to reclaim the land that was unjustly ripped from their ancestral embrace. #SilverDollarRoad ...
Oct 13, 2023 · From Academy-Award Nominee Raoul Peck, Silver Dollar Road follows the story of the Reels family as told by the matriarch Mamie Reels Ellison and her niece Kim Renee Duhon,...
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