Underplayed Gems

Banished (2006)

Banished poster
Directed by
Marco Williams
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 27m
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This documentary examines three American towns that forced out Black families in the decades after the Civil War. It looks at specific violent events in Arkansas, Missouri, and Georgia that happened between 1886 and 1923.

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What happens

Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America is a 2008 documentary film about three of the U.S. cities which violently expelled African-American families in post-Reconstruction America. The film depicts incidents in Arkansas, Missouri, and Georgia that occurred between 1886 and 1923. Banished was screened in competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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