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  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • Home Box Office (HBO)
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • Home Box Office (HBO)
  • 1 h 45 m

Summary In 2015, Sandra Bland, a politically active 28-year-old black woman from Chicago was arrested for a traffic violation in a small Texas town. Three days later, Sandra was found hanging from a noose in her jail cell. Though ruled a suicide, her death sparked allegations of racially-motivated police murder and Sandra became a poster child f...

Directed By: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner

  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • Home Box Office (HBO)
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2018
  • TV-MA
  • Home Box Office (HBO)
  • 1 h 45 m

Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland

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Summary In 2015, Sandra Bland, a politically active 28-year-old black woman from Chicago was arrested for a traffic violation in a small Texas town. Three days later, Sandra was found hanging from a noose in her jail cell. Though ruled a suicide, her death sparked allegations of racially-motivated police murder and Sandra became a poster child f...

Directed By: Kate Davis, David Heilbroner

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Nov 16, 2018
By far the best part of Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland is that we get to see her face and hear her words.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
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Nov 18, 2018
Chronicling Bland’s own Facebook activism along with an examination of the mysterious circumstances of her death, the film is part legal procedural, police mystery, and an exploration of the kind of racism that led to her arrest in the first place.
By John Fink FULL REVIEW
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Nov 18, 2018
Say Her Name doesn’t have answers, but it does re-emphasize how unnecessarily tragic Bland’s death was, and why her name should be a boldfaced one in the nationwide call for police reform.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
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Nov 18, 2018
What the film does best is bear witness to what happened on the day of the arrest and place it in the context of Bland's political life.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Nov 9, 2018
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating TV-MA
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Awards

Women Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Ridgefield Independent Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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