The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

About The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind.

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard is a 2021 documentary film directed by Jamila Ephron. The film is filed under police brutality, black lives matter, police violence, and racism.

André Holland takes the lead as Narrator (voice), Leland Gantt as Isaac Woodward (voice), Kenneth Mack as Self, and Sherrilyn Ifill as Self. It runs 112 minutes and was released in March 2021.

The screenplay is by Jamila Ephron and Mark Zwonitzer. Produced by GBH. In the United States it streams on PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, La Haine, and Straight Outta Compton make useful companions to The Blinding of Isaac Woodard.