American Reckoning
About American Reckoning
In this feature-length documentary from FRONTLINE and Retro Report, an unsolved 1960s murder reveals an untold story of the civil rights movement and Black resistance. “American Reckoning” examines Black opposition to racist violence in Mississippi, spotlighting a little-known armed resistance group called the Deacons for Defense and Justice, woven alongside the Jackson family’s decades-long searc…
American Reckoning (2022) is a documentary film directed by Brad Lichtenstein and Yoruba Richen. It runs 83 minutes and was released in February 2022.
The screenplay is by Brad Lichtenstein and Yoruba Richen. In the United States it streams on PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel.