It is extremely moving, and a crucial education to help understand the growing Black Lives Matter movement. It discusses the lives and deaths of his three close friends: civil rights leaders Malcolm X, Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King Jr. Raoul Peck’s documentary creates a narrative out of notes and letters written by James Baldwin in the 1970s. Lilah highly recommends I Am Not Your Negro (Amazon Prime). The film features academics, activists and politicians who take you through the legacy of slavery feeding in to America’s justice system.” 13th (Netflix) “Ava DuVernay’s powerful documentary will leave you feeling informed and outraged.It’s set against the backdrop of the 2016 presidential election, which makes it particularly interesting to reflect on now.” Flint Town (Netflix) “This fly-on-the-wall doc following the Flint Town Police Department provides an insight into the racial tensions between police and black communities.LA 92 (Netflix, Amazon Prime) “Archive footage is woven together to tell the story of the 1992 LA riots which were ignited when four police officers were acquitted of the beating of Rodney King, a black man.”.Victoria Amico in London emailed us to recommend three documentaries on the subject of race in America: So to get past the recommended titles, Gris and co-host Lilah Raptopoulos put out a call to listeners: what are the best things streaming now?īelow is a curation of responses. We are oversaturated with mediocrity at a critical time in history.
Five hours into a beautifully shot but otherwise pointless Netflix documentary series about babies, Griselda Murray Brown took to our culture podcast, Culture Call, with a warranted gripe: Netflix is not serving us the good stuff.