All In: Fight for Democracy

[Opens Sept. 9 in theaters and on Amazon Prime Video on Sept. 18.] A captivating, ire-inducing, candid, educational, factually based, moving, timely, 102-minute documentary that focuses on the Georgia House of Representatives minority leader Stacey Abrams who runs against the Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp in the 2018 gubernatorial election and chronicles the shocking and disturbing history of the weaponization of voter suppression tactics that began with the drafting of the Constitution (which allowed for only 6% of the U.S. population to vote) while examining the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 19th amendments to the Constitution that tried to stop the suppression and consists of archival films clips and photographs and insightful commentary by One Person, One Vote author/historian Carol Anderson, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 historian Eric Foner, Rev. Robert and Carolyn Abrams, civil rights leader Andrew Young, civil rights lawyer Debo Adegbile, Ohio Democratic Party Chairman David Pepper, Give Us the Ballot author Ari Berman, Florida Civil Rights Restoration Coalition members Desmond Meade and Neil Volz, Luci Haines Johnson, former Maricopa county sheriff Joe Arapio in Arizona, former Attorney General Eric Holder, Why Americans Don't Vote author Frances Fox Piven, Alabama Selby county attorney Bert Rein, Abrams campaign chairwoman Lauren Groh-Wargo, Georgia state representative Nikema Williams, Brennan Center for Justice Michael Waldman, Heritage Foundation Hans Van Spakovsky, voting rights activists Michael Parsons and Jayla Allen, Ohio congresswoman Marcia Fudge, and ACLU representative Sean J. Young.
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