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The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
Directed by
Keith Beauchamp
PG-13
2005
68m
Documentary
,
Biography
7.7
97%
84%
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Never-before-seen testimony is included in this documentary on Emmett Louis Till, who, in 1955, was brutally murdered after he whistled at a white woman.
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Cast of The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
Al Sharpton
Mamie Till Mobley
Wheeler Parker
Simeon Wright
Ruthie Mae Crawford
Charles Evers
Keith Beauchamp
Director / Producer
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till Ratings & Reviews
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Beauchamp, who worked on his film for nine years, dutifully reinterviews the surviving witnesses, and more effectively than any previous documentary or return look at the case, re-creates the atmosphere of a 1950s Mississippi.
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
uncovers additional evidence and becomes both a suitable memorial as well as a call to action
Arizona Republic
Richard Nilsen
This well-focused, short (75 minute) film will be an eye opener for those who didn't live through the era. For those who did, it will be all too familiar.
Oregonian
Shawn Levy
The film is only 70 minutes long, but it is nearly impossible to sit through, not only because of the lingering image at its center of Emmett Till's battered body but because of the visceral sense of outrage it can't help but provoke in you.
Orlando Weekly
Steve Schneider
Beauchamp reaches this point without exploitation or cheap foreshadowing; there are no dramatic music stings underlying the outwardly innocuous biography before it methodically descends into true American tragedy.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Potent and searing.
Washington Post
Neely Tucker
You leave the theater feeling moved by a mother's courage, sickened by the crime and a little frustrated, wondering if this unquiet moment in our history will ever rest easy.
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
Beauchamp expertly excerpts long stretches from the extensive television coverage of the 1955 events, juxtaposing them with present-day interviews with the people who lived though these traumatic happenings.
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
Beauchamp must be applauded for not only for his investigative daring but also for his unflinching courage.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bob Longino
A testament to the power of film.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
[Beauchamp's film] has an earnest solemnity that is appropriate to the material.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
A painful reminder that reparations still need to be made for what whites have done to blacks in this country.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
One of the most powerful, important things a documentary can do is bear witness to man's inhumanity to man, and document for posterity crimes that cry out for justice, however tardy.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
I can't recommend the film strongly enough.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
As important for its social and legal implications as for its cinematic qualities, Keith A. Beauchamp's film about the brutal murder that helped spark the civil rights movement transcends its genre.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The film is a shocking account of the deep-seated racism that existed in the South in the dawn of the civil rights movement.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Keith A. Beauchamp's lean, harrowing inquisition into a murder that catalyzed the civil rights movement is an incendiary documentary.
Village Voice
Joshua Land
A triumph of documentary activism nine years in the making.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
There is a patchy quality to the film that leaves us roiling with more questions than it is prepared to answer.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
This documentary about one of the South's most infamous lynchings goes beyond the horrifying facts.
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