The title's promise that Keith Beauchamp's documentary about the 1955 murder of Emmett Till will reveal an "untold" side of the story is misleading: Due to the U.S. Justice Department's recently reopened investigation of the crime — a decision sparked in part by Beauchamp's film — very little of what he uncovered during the 10 years he spent researching and interviewing subjects actually appears in the movie. Nevertheless, Beauchamp reconstructs the actual crime with disturbing immediacy, and his treatment of how Till's death galvanized a country makes this short film a good way to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a crime that still has the power to outr...
Released:
2004
Rated:
NR
Length:
70 mins