13th (2016)
13th (2016)
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Cast & Crew.
Melina Abdullah
Self - Chair, Pan-African Studies, California State University, Los Angeles
Michelle Alexander
Self - Educator and Author, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self
Cory Booker
Self - U.S. Senator (D) New Jersey
Marie Gottschalk
Self
Michael Hough
Self
Jelani Cobb
Self - Professor of African-American Studies, University of Connecticut
Gina Clayton
Self
David Keene
Self
James Kilgore
Self
Angela Davis
Self - Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz
Bryan Stevenson
Self
Nicholas Turner
Self
David Dinkins
Self - 106th Mayor of New York City (D)
John Hagan
Self
Van Jones
Self
Ava DuVernay
Director
Barack Obama
Self (archive footage)
Spencer Averick
Writer
Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Carter
Self (archive footage)
Howard Barish
Producer
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Donald Trump
Self (archive footage)
George H. W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Jason Moran
Composer
Hillary Clinton
Self (archive footage)
Hans Charles
Cinematographer
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Kira Kelly
Cinematographer
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
Nancy Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Gerald Ford
Self (archive footage)
Michael Dukakis
Self (archive footage)
Bernie Sanders
Self (archive footage)
Assata Shakur
Self (archive footage)
Jeffrey Perkins
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
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13th is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Ava DuVernay. The film explores the prison-industrial complex, and the "intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States"; it is titled after the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1865, which abolished slavery throughout the United States and ended involuntary servitude except as a punishment for conviction of a crime. This allowed for a constitutional loophole in which black Americans became criminalized and faced involuntary servitude in the form of penal labor.
DuVernay contends that slavery has been perpetuated since the end of the American Civil War through criminalizing behavior and enabling police to arrest poor freedmen and force them to work for the state under convict leasing; suppression of African Americans by disenfranchisement, lynchings, and Jim Crow; politicians declaring a war on drugs that weighs more heavily on minority communities and, by the late 20th century, mass incarceration affecting communities of color, especially American descendants of slavery, in the United States. She examines the prison-industrial complex and the emerging detention-industrial complex, discussing how much money is being made by corporations from such incarcerations.
13th garnered acclaim from a number of film critics. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards,
and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards.It experienced a surge in viewership by 4,665 percent in June 2020 during the George Floyd protests.