13TH (2016)
NAME OF FILM: 13TH
DIRECTOR(S): Ava DuVernay
STARRING: Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker
GENRE: Documentary Film
SYNOPSIS: Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of race, justice and mass incarceration in the U.S., focusing on the nation’s prisons that are disproportionately filled with African-Americans.
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