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13th
Directed by
Ava DuVernay
TV-MA
2016
1h 40m
Documentary
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Crime
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and more
8.2
97%
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An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
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Cast of 13th
Jelani Cobb
Self
Angela Davis
Self
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self
Michelle Alexander
Self
Cory Booker
Self - U.S. Senator (D) New Jersey
Marie Gottschalk
Self
Michael Hough
Self
Gina Clayton
Self
David Keene
Self
James Kilgore
Self
Bryan Stevenson
Self
Nicholas Turner
Self
John Hagan
Self
Van Jones
Self
Barack Obama
Self (archive footage)
Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Carter
Self (archive footage)
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Donald Trump
Self (archive footage)
George H. W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Hillary Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
Nancy Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Gerald Ford
Self (archive footage)
Michael Dukakis
Self (archive footage)
Bernie Sanders
Self (archive footage)
David Dinkins
Self - 106th Mayor of New York City (D)
Assata Shakur
Self (archive footage)
Ava DuVernay
Director / Writer / Producer
Spencer Averick
Writer / Producer
Howard Barish
Producer
13th Ratings & Reviews
Rowan Krzysiak
January 6, 2025
13th (2016) A documentary that suggests America uses the labour of incarcerated black people as a replacement for outlawed slave labour. It's interesting but unsurprisingly one-note. As a result it slightly overstays on its 100 minute runtime. Fine.
AARP Movies for Grownups
Thelma Adams
Ava DuVernay's 13TH is essential viewing on the history of racism in America - and how the warehousing of black men in contemporary corporate prisons is rooted in the slavery of the past.
NPR
Bob Mondello
In her documentary, 13th, Ava DuVernay cites the wording of the 13th amendment, which outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude "except as a punishment for crime..." but DuVernay gives the argument enormous cinematic force.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
DuVernay creates a cogent, compelling argument in 13th, which balances attractively filmed talking-head interviews with alternately heartbreaking and infuriating archival footage.
What the Flick?!
Christy Lemire
What [DuVernay] achives in a relatively short amount of time... feels thorough and yet concise and it's calmly powerful.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The urgency that courses through this documentary is that things actually can change if knowledge can be turned into momentum and momentum can become legislation.
Andscape
Soraya Nadia McDonald
13th tells us black Americans are not irrational. They are not making up racism or targeted arrests and police violence. 13th tells us black people are not crazy.
Shadow and Act
Aramide Tinubu
What the film does beautifully, is its connecting of a thread that runs through the past one hundred and fifty years; we did not come to this place in history by accident.
America Magazine
John Anderson
[DuVernay's] movie, for all its good words and bad pictures, lacks the fierce urgency of now.
Complex
Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
The latest film from acclaimed Selma director Ava DuVernay is a much-needed, sobering punch to the face that eloquently contextualizes the current state of America and one of its most important issues.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
It's a crazy amount of ground to cover, but only rarely does 13th sacrifice clarity for cinematic energy.
Slate
Leon Neyfakh
In its sweeping treatment of the history of American racism, the film brought me closer than I've ever been to understanding how it could be that so many people could have ever grown used to the moral catastrophes that were slavery and Jim Crow.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
Given the concerns about relations between law enforcement and minority communities, 13th could hardly be timelier.
Detroit News
Tom Long
It's all very alarming and upsetting and terrifying.
Observer
Oliver Jones
Manages to capture the depth and insidiousness of more than a century of cultural, societal and economic oppression along racial lines and then condenses it into a brisk 100-minute package that could literally slip right into your pocket.
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Dwight Brown
The film is a revelation on so many levels. When it ends, the feeling of anger and sorrow is almost overwhelming.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
13th ... is dense with information, and it moves fast. But it's also a story told in images, and the ones DuVernay has chosen ring not just with sadness and horror but also cautious optimism.
Truthdig
Carrie Rickey
At once devastating, infuriating and bracing, 13th is a landmark documentary that mourns the martyrs and provides a prcis of how to make America truly just.
Vox
Alissa Wilkinson
Vital, searing, and engaging.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
DuVernay keeps it all chugging and churning along, propelled by the force of her montage and the sheer volume of damning, gripping material.
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