MOVIE REVIEW: Standout doc about the Sixties explores still relevant lessons in police oppression.
This documentary from director Sierra Pettengill that tells the story of two actual faux towns built on a couple of Army bases in Virginia and Georgia by the United States government back in the 1960s. They built these two fake towns – one-sided facades facing rows of bleachers – for police from around the country to come and learn new tactical measures to quell the violent protests many American cities were dealing with at the time.
Pettengill’s documentary is composed solely of archival footage from the 1960s, culled from the government’s own films shot at both Riotsville locations and from the major network news outlets. The film takes the viewer through the tumultuous decade where people dared to speak out and to speak up about the oppression they felt at the hands of the government. The government’s own reporting told everyone what was already apparent: that the United States was a racist country.
Look, this movie is going to make you angry. It made me angry. Direct from Riotsville 1967 to your local small-town police force in 2022 that’s equipped with a tank they will never need nor use, police forces around the country spend billions on equipment meant for battlefields. Charlene Modeste’s matter-of-fact narration takes you along the journey of. And a journey it is.
In a film with a lot of striking juxtapositions, there’s an especially moving one that begins with audio of a portion of Sen. Robert Byrd’s speech on the floor of the Senate, in which Byrd calls out Martin Luther King Jr. as a coward who starts a riot and then flees the scene to let others pay the price. Then a graphic comes up informing the viewer that King was assassinated six days later.
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