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Silver Dollar Road

Silver Dollar Road

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 13, 2023

Runtime

1h 41m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

72%

Original Title

Silver Dollar Road

Production Companies

Velvet Film, JuVee Productions, Amazon MGM Studios

Director

Raoul Peck

Description

The story of the Reels family who are valiantly attempting to protect the land their family bought one generation after slavery. This documentary, based on the 2019 ProPublica article, highlights the covert ways the legal system has been exploited to keep Black land ownership fragile and the racial wealth gap growing.