Amend: The Fight for America: Season 1

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Amend: The Fight For America

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Netflix | Season Premiere Date: February 17, 2021

Summary: Will Smith hosts this six-part documentary series about the history of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution with reading from Mahershala Ali, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Lane, Pedro Pascal, and Yara Shahidi.

Genre(s): Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E6. Episode 06
Air Date: February 17, 2021
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S1:E5. Episode 05
Air Date: February 17, 2021
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S1:E4. Episode 04
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Richard Roeper

Feb 16, 2021

Invaluable, vital and enlightening. Read full review

Aaron Barnhart

Feb 16, 2021

As as critic I would advise viewers short on time to watch only the first and last episodes. Then, if you like what you see, you can go back and watch parts two through five. If you’re a teacher, though, you may just want to carve out a week or more for your kids to watch and discuss all six hours. It's that good. Read full review

Inkoo Kang

Feb 16, 2021

For a series with such a large scope and often bone-dry subject matter, Amend makes legal history approachable and digestible. Read full review

Daniel D'Addario

Feb 17, 2021

“Amend” balances enough to keep the viewer perpetually engaged, toggling between various manners of conveying information to move through big American stories, one an episode. It’s perhaps at its best when those stories are about further-flung history. Read full review

Melanie McFarland

Feb 18, 2021

It is one thing for historians to break down all the civil rights victories won through the hardest of struggles over decades of sacrifice, terrorism and death. It's something altogether more complex to bring all of that alive in a thoughtful way and make it speak to who and where the TV audience happens to be now. "Amend" achieves this by polishing history with high entertainment value. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Robert Daniels

Feb 17, 2021

“Amend: The Fight for America” is corny in parts, and serious-minded in others. But a charismatic Will Smith, a few little known facts, and a particularly uplifting episode give this docuseries about the importance of the 14th Amendment a reason to exist. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Feb 22, 2021

Amend is a significant undertaking in its scope, and the roster of celebrity talent assembled is impressive and eclectic. The one misstep lies in Smith's folksy transitions, which seem tailored to a school-age audience. Granted, it would be great if kids watched this, but the "Schoolhouse Rock" tone he adopts feels out of step with the other voices telling this story. Read full review

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UnknownBigF

Feb 28, 2021

This was kind of terrible. While on the one hand, it does provide some useful historical insight, it also regularly presents historical events as being comparable to current events, implying similarity, in an entirely unreasonable and sometimes deceptive way, instilling a sense of doubt thatThis was kind of terrible. While on the one hand, it does provide some useful historical insight, it also regularly presents historical events as being comparable to current events, implying similarity, in an entirely unreasonable and sometimes deceptive way, instilling a sense of doubt that any of the topics at hand are presented in a truthful manner.
The last episode outright compares the deportation of illegal immigrants to the hunting down of enslaved men under the fugitive slave act, for instance.
It is the amalgamation of woke twitter's most poorly thought out ideals distilled into 6 hours of unreliable storytelling. I'd advise skepticism when watching this.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: February 17, 2021
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  S1:E6. Episode 06
  Air Date: February 17, 2021
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  S1:E5. Episode 05
  Air Date: February 17, 2021
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  S1:E4. Episode 04
  Air Date: February 17, 2021
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  S1:E3. Episode 03
  Air Date: February 17, 2021
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  S1:E2. Episode 02
  Air Date: February 17, 2021
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  S1:E1. Episode 01
  Air Date: February 17, 2021