Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are)

[Opens Sept. 17 in theaters and available on Peacock.] Rachel Boynton's powerful, educational, poignant, fascinating, thought-provoking, moving, 100-minute documentary that explores through multilayered discussions what students and people in the South think about slavery, racism, the reasons for the Civil War, and how history is taught in schools and consists of archival film clips and photographs, battle reenactments, and candid commentary by authors Isabel Wilkerson and Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson, historian and author Dr. David Blight, schoolteachers (such as Cate Arnold, Chris Carpenter, and Antwayn Patrick), Sons of Confederate Veterans Robert Epperson and Herbert DeLoach Jr., Mississippi citizens Clyde and Kyle Magee and Deborah and James Robinson, professors Greg Carr and Melissa Janczewski Jones, Mississippi state representative William Shirley and Senator Chris McDaniel, African American Civil War Memorial and Museum Director Frank Smith Jr., assistant professor Stephanie Rolph, artist Kehinde Wiley, school principal LaFrederick Thirkill, Mississippi Department of Archives and History William Rogers, Virginia Congressman John Mercer Langston, Take ‘Em Down NOLA Malcolm Suber, Civil War Roundtable Dale Julius, and Boston University Center for Antiracist Research Director Ibram X. Kendi.
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