Uprising

Matt Roush says...

Revisiting provocative themes from his acclaimed Small Axe dramatic anthology, Oscar-winning filmmaker and executive producer Steve McQueen delivers three powerful and topical documentaries about Black activism in the U.K. Uprising comprises three hourlong reports on pivotal events in 1981: the New Cross Fire that killed 13 Black youths, the Black People’s Day of Action, the first organized protest by Black British citizens that drew more than 20,000 people, and the Brixton riots. Black Power: A British Story of Resistance tells how the Black Power movement grew in the late 1960s. Subnormal: A British Scandal tells of an education scandal in the 1960s and ’70s when it was revealed that Black children were being sent to schools for the “educationally subnormal” in disproportionate numbers.

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