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Strong Island [Plays on Netflix and in Virtual Cinema for FREE on July 19 sponsored by MSP Film Society; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org.] Yance Ford's gut-wrenching, deeply personal, critically acclaimed, Oscar-nominated, candid, heartfelt, slow-paced, like-it-or-hate-it, 107-minute, 2017 POV documentary that uses interviews with grief stricken family members (such as mother Barbara Dunmore and brother Yance Ford), detective James Hughes, and former assistant district attorneys David Breen and Ed Boyar and archival photographs to delve into the issues surrounding the tragic, brutal, senseless murder of 24-year-old African-American high school math teacher William Ford Jr. in April 1992 in Long Island, New York, by white mechanic Mark Reilly and its aftermath.   Redhead: Year: 2020 Rating:  NR View Strong Island on the Internet Movie Database