It feels at once like the blink of an eye and an eternity since Ava DuVernay’s documentary 13th arrived on Netflix, a month before the election of Donald Trump to his first term as president. READ MORE
14th, the documentary directed by Ava DuVernay that premiered Friday night as the closing-night film of the New York Film Festival, begins with several American presidents taking the oath of office: FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Carter, Reagan… each of them swearing to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” READ MORE
Premiering at the New York Film Festival, the filmmaker’s follow-up to her ’13th’ tackles birthright citizenship, the Equal Protection Clause and the undoing of the gains of Reconstruction. READ MORE
It’s rare to see a dramatic feature filmmaker move into the realm of documentary with the craftmanship and authority and insightful power summoned by Ava DuVernay. “13th,” the documentary she made back in 2016, was a revelation — it told the lacerating story of how the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery, was a revolutionary act of law that, at the same time, opened the door to the way that numerous dimensions of slavery would be perpetuated in America under different names and tactics. READ MORE
A decade after Ava DuVernay‘s Oscar-nominated and Peabody Award-winning 13th debuted on Netflix, the filmmaker and the streamer are back together in the Constitutional business. Spotlighting America’s long running and sometimes bloody battle with itself over who is a citizen and how much freedom they get… READ MORE
Portrayed by Academy Award nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (“King Richard”), Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson experiences unfathomable personal loss and love as she crosses continents and cultures to craft one of the defining American books of our time. Directed by Ava DuVernay. WATCH NOW