13th

2016 "From slave to criminal with one amendment."
8.2| 1h40m| en| More Info
Released: 07 October 2016 Released
Producted By: Kandoo Films
Country: United States of America
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An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

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Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Nashark The aim of the documentary is to show how the over-represented black prison population is all the state/corporations/white people's fault essentially, providing very little of the documentary's time to counter-opinion.Arguably, the most reasoned argument in the entire documentary was a 10 second clip of Bill Clinton, completely destroying the argument that crack cocaine was banned and severely punished as an anti-black measure when, given the vast magnitude of harm the drug did to urban and black communities, the prohibition of it guarded those same communities unlike the weaker protections offered to the mainly suburban white communities from the harms of normal cocaine, where punishment of possession/distribution was, the documentary claims (without statistics), less harsh. By that reasoning, the war on drugs was anti-white. I don't agree with either reasoning because I don't agree that the war on drugs was motivated by race nor do I agree with the central argument of the documentary that the incarceration rates of African-Americans are so high because of a white conspiracy. Poor documentary. 4/10.
Edward Potter I am white, but not from the U.S. and years goes by, my hate I would describe it, to those whites or other racists gets stronger and stronger. I feel like those people are the real vampires that kill or see black people as their dinner blood. Back in my country we have black people but, there is no such a thing as racist or seeing them different than ourselves. Nobody would understand if you say they are black, should be treated different, NOBODY! And then America talks about human rights in the other countries, if you really care first fix it in your country. I have friends here black, white, Latinos and more, and I see no color. THOSE racist people should be evils that live with us. "Hell is empty, all devils are here", William Shakespeare, must meant those white, cruel racists. I watch lots of movies, especially these kind, and every time I see movies like that I wish I were a superhero or someone who could do whatever he or she wishes, and feel what people are thinking and kill those racists. I am white, but not from the U.S. and I am 100 % with "BlackLivesMatter". I am white, and I care about black People!
saccitygrl I am a member of the target demographic who would be predicted to be sympathetic and supportive of this film. I really was looking forward to this film and upon seeing it pop on netflix immediately sat down to watch it. The film does a great job of laying out the political landscape that led to where we are on this issue and all the stripes of the political players who made this reality we find ourselves in today. It also does a great job regarding the cultural landscape and historical context that led us to where we are on this issue. The history of slavery, racism, KKK and civil rights movement is covered very well and captured powerfully in images that are difficult to look at. But there are some serious omissions that should have been addressed and its not a oversite that can easily be dismissed. Specifically, 1) If you are going to bring the drug war into this discussion, you should include an examination as to why poor neighborhoods and regions are saturated with these substances. If you don't, you allow the naysayers to run to easy cover under the shelter of "law and order" which only takes a few breathes before one starts blaming the imprisoned for getting caught up in the systematic net that was set up and created by design. 2) If you are going to compare statistics or numbers, you need to make damn sure you are comparing apples to apples and not using them willy nilly. If you don't, you look like at worst a propagandist and at best, just plain stupid. This issue is pivotal to the culture we find ourselves in as Americans today. There is no room for slapdash half measures to raise public awareness that we are slowly but surely moving towards a military state. A process during which the populace is taking it all in stride, swallowing the trigger language whole and behaving like frogs in a pot of water being slowly heated on the stove. The filmmakers could have done better and should have done better as it would not required much effort or much more research. They did not serve the issue well with this film and that is frankly tragic.
Michael_Elliott 13th (2016) *** (out of 4)Extremely well-made, if one-sided, documentary that takes a look at the 13th Amendment and the mass incarceration that many claims is haunting this country. The documentary takes a look at the prison system in America and we see how the populations in prison have gone up through each of the last five decades. We see the political punches that were thrown by Reagan, Bush and Clinton and how people hope things can be changed.In today's day and age it's hard to find a documentary that is fair or balanced because filmmakers have a cause when they make movies and they want to throw all of their opinions and facts into what they're trying to push. 13 is an extremely well-made movie and for the first hour it's an extremely balanced movie. With that said, the final half hour goes completely off the mark but we'll get to that in a bit.As far as the film goes, it does a terrific job at showing the prison system and how so many more people are now behind bars. The documentary did a great job at going decade to decade showing the various laws that opened the prison doors including the "Three Strikes and You're Out" policy and why many people are serving life sentences for minor crimes. All of this is brilliantly told and the way the evidence is laid out was wonderfully done.With that said, the final portion of the film turns into a more Liberal documentary where the likes of Michael Brown and others are brought up. We're told about how awful this country is and how people of color are being terrorized. Well, we know Michael Brown never had his hands up. Yet that is never mentioned here. We're constantly told about how crime rates are falling yet this documentary never talks about the locations where crimes rates are going sky high. There's no mention of Chicago. The film also fails to really make a point that if you didn't commit a crime to begin with then you won't have to worry about the system. It seems this documentary wants to take away any punishment for those who commit crimes.