Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun?
Essential Documentaries
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1h 30m
Directed by Travis Wilkerson | 90 mins | 2017
A particularly lacerating take on the “home movie,” Wilkerson’s film excavates the buried story of his own great-grandfather’s murder of a Black man in c. 1946 Dothan, Alabama, an inquest that puts him in conflict with contemporary residents of the town and members of his own family who would just as soon let the past stay buried.
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