New Documentary, Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are) Now Availalbe for Preview

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Outcast Films newest release, Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are) is now available for preview.  If you are interetested in watching the film, please send us an email at info@outcast-films.com

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

Directed by Rachel Boynton 
Produced by Rachel Boynton and Erika Dilday
USA / 100 mins / 2021

"In this time of reckoning in the country, Rachel Boynton’s journey into the heart of Civil War memory reveals just how contested, and personal, the meaning of this defining event in our history remains. From flags and monuments in the town square to family photos and forlorn cemeteries, we, the living, continue to grapple with how to confront this singular event of national trauma and the horrific slave system at its deepest confounding root. Especially poignant are the interviews and scenes within our schools, where teachers and students struggle to make sense of the hold that the Civil War has on us still. How can any of us wrap our minds around the ugliness of slavery, or the deaths of 750,000 Americans over its demise, or the tragically short-lived liberation of close to 4 million enslaved black Americans, who, in the aftermath, would step out as the vanguard of our boldest experiment in multiracial democracy, only to see Reconstruction–and so many of the hopes it ignited—violently overthrown by a counter-revolution that ushered in a century of Jim Crow and altered the story of the war, and its most important cause, for generations and generations to come. It is our duty to challenge each other, as this film does, to search for the truth, to heal, and to imagine a better, and more just, future for all.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Executive Producer, American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual 

Watch the trailer: [video: https://vimeo.com/662684325]

Read more: https://outcast-films.com/civil-war/