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Amend: The Fight for America

Summary Will Smith hosts this look at the evolving, often lethal, fight for equal rights in America through the lens of the US Constitution's 14th Amendment. View more details

  • 2021
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Amend: The Fight for America

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Will Smith Samira Wiley Larry Wilmore Bryan Stevenson

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Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Feb 16, 2021

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Netflix Site

Language : English

Production companies : Netflix The Documentary Group Makemake

Summary Will Smith hosts this look at the evolving, often lethal, fight for equal rights in America through the lens of the US Constitution's 14th Amendment. View more details

Details

Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Feb 16, 2021

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Netflix Site

Language : English

Production companies : Netflix The Documentary Group Makemake

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Amend: The Fight for America (2021) Amend: The Fight for America (2021)

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Episode 1 • Feb 16, 2021
Citizen
After escaping slavery, Frederick Douglass becomes a pivotal voice calling for citizenship for Black Americans, a dream realized in the 14th Amendment.
Episode 2 • Feb 16, 2021
Resistance
After ratification, violent atrocities, court rulings and the Lost Cause ideology systematically subvert the 14th Amendment's promises of equality.
Episode 3 • Feb 16, 2021
Wait
As the civil rights movement gains momentum in the 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. orchestrates protests that goad President John F. Kennedy into action.
Episode 4 • Feb 16, 2021
Control
In the 1970s, women appeal to evolving interpretations of the 14th Amendment in their fight to achieve equality and control their own destinies.
Episode 5 • Feb 16, 2021
Love
After decades of setbacks, the struggle for same-sex marriage equality culminates in an Ohio couple's case taken up by the Supreme Court in 2015.
Episode 6 • Feb 16, 2021
Promise
Immigrants have long put their hope in America, but intolerant policies, racism and shocking violence have frequently trampled their dreams.
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