SILVER DOLLAR ROAD

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Documentary | 100 MIN | US

From Academy-Award® Nominee Raoul Peck, SILVER DOLLAR ROAD follows the story of the Reels family as told by the matriarch Mamie Reels Ellison and her niece Kim Renee Duhon. These two fierce and clear-eyed women bend to safeguard valiantly their ancestors’ land and their brothers and uncles Melvin and Licurtis, who were wrongfully imprisoned for eight years – the longest sentence for civil contempt in North Carolina history.

FESTIVAL
Toronto International Film Festival 2023
DIRECTOR
Raoul Peck
WRITER
Raoul Peck

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