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  • 2023
  • PG
  • Amazon Prime Video
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2023
  • PG
  • Amazon Prime Video
  • 1 h 40 m

Summary Based on the ProPublica article, the documentary recounts the riveting narrative of the Reels family, led by the matriarch fondly known as "Mamie." Ever since the days following emancipation, the Reels family dedicated themselves to farming, fishing, and painstakingly forging a sustainable existence upon their expansive parcel of land ne...

Directed By: Raoul Peck

Written By: Lizzie Presser, Raoul Peck

  • 2023
  • PG
  • Amazon Prime Video
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2023
  • PG
  • Amazon Prime Video
  • 1 h 40 m

Silver Dollar Road

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Based on the ProPublica article, the documentary recounts the riveting narrative of the Reels family, led by the matriarch fondly known as "Mamie." Ever since the days following emancipation, the Reels family dedicated themselves to farming, fishing, and painstakingly forging a sustainable existence upon their expansive parcel of land ne...

Directed By: Raoul Peck

Written By: Lizzie Presser, Raoul Peck

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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88
Sep 12, 2023
While this documentary doesn’t rise to the level of his masterwork “Exterminate All the Brutes,” the pain and anger, resolve, and courage that Peck captures in Silver Dollar Road make it a complex, intense document of the persistence of Black existence in a world hell-bent on erasure.
By Robert Daniels FULL REVIEW
82
Oct 23, 2023
Some documentaries would be better off as written journalism. Silver Dollar Road complements Presser’s work with Peck’s erudition and humane touch.
By Andrew Crump FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 19, 2023
Amid the looming threats to a cherished home, Peck’s accomplishment is to let the Reels family own their emotional space.
By Nicolas Rapold FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 15, 2023
If your recipe for outrage needs a villainous presence, Peck isn’t interested in stoking it that way, and shouldn’t need to. That’s not the oxygen Silver Dollar Road, building off a 2019 ProPublica article by Lizzie Presser, wants to breathe. Rather, it’s the warmth, togetherness and persistence of a family fighting a ruthlessly unfair system, holding onto each other as forces move to expel them.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 15, 2023
Peck’s film – which, with its themes of race and failures of American justice, has a kinship with Ava DuVernay’s 13th and Garrett Bradley’s Time – is both infuriating and also unexpectedly uplifting in its celebration of family unity.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
60
Oct 19, 2023
When it comes to its central legal struggle, though, it leaves out so many crucial details that it cuts itself off at the knees.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Amazon Studios, JuVee Productions, ProPublica, Velvet Film
Release Date Oct 13, 2023
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating PG
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Tagline A family's land is its legacy.
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Awards

North Carolina Film Critics Association
• 2 Nominations
Philadelphia Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Calgary International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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