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  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 20 m

Summary "It was the Rosa Parks moment," says one man. June 28, 1969: NYC police raid a Greenwich Village Mafia-run gay bar, The Stonewall Inn. For the first time, patrons refuse to be led into paddy wagons, setting off a 3-day riot that launches the Gay Rights Movement. Told by Stonewall patrons, reporters and the cop who led the raid, Stonewall...

Written By: David Carter

  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2010
  • Unrated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 20 m

Stonewall Uprising

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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Summary "It was the Rosa Parks moment," says one man. June 28, 1969: NYC police raid a Greenwich Village Mafia-run gay bar, The Stonewall Inn. For the first time, patrons refuse to be led into paddy wagons, setting off a 3-day riot that launches the Gay Rights Movement. Told by Stonewall patrons, reporters and the cop who led the raid, Stonewall...

Written By: David Carter

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Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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80% Positive
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20% Mixed
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0% Negative
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100
The film's final words are simple and to the point, and come from the retired cop, Seymour Pine: "You knew they broke the law, but what kind of law was that?"
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90
Methodically ticks off the forms of oppression visited on gays and lesbians in the days before the gay rights movement.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
83
As the eye-opening documentary Stonewall Uprising shows through interviews and frequently horrifying old footage, homosexuality in this country was once a highly illegal behavior, widely viewed, at the very least, as a mental disorder, possibly even psychopathic.
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75
Unfortunately, for the bulk of the film's running time -- its first two-thirds or so -- Davis and Heilbroner oversaturate viewers with scene-setting material, describing the climate for gay men and lesbians in the 1950s and 1960s.
By Mike Scott FULL REVIEW
75
The film takes awhile to get going -- the depiction of homophobic 1950s suburbia has a familiar feel. The movie hits its stride only when eyewitnesses to the events at the Stonewall tell their stories.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
60
Many witnesses offer emotional recollections of the ensuing riots, but equally powerful moments come courtesy of old footage, in which anti-gay "experts" expound with a confident ignorance that sounds chillingly familiar even today.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
50
Tellingly, it's not the queers, but a cop--Seymour Pine, the 90-year-old retired NYPD morals inspector who led the raid on the Stonewall Inn--who gets the last word.
By Melissa Anderson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company PBS American Experience
Release Date Jun 18, 2010
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

Outflix Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics
• 1 Nomination

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