Multiple Documentary Approaches

I believe this in movie there are multiple documentary approaches. One of the main approaches throughout this movie was a propaganda film because it was letting their audience know about the incarceration that is taking place and how it’s another form of slavery, just like segregation and Jim Crow laws. It also talked about how the 13th amendment is the cause of the high rate of people of color being incarcerated. During the movie, the multiple speakers talk about facts and different events that drew them to the conclusion they have about the correlation between African Americans and Hispanic people and prison. But through those facts it also allowed the viewers to hear recording from government officials that stated their plan was to imprison

To go in depth, basically that the prison system that we see today is a cleverer way to keep people of color enslaved by having the rest of society believe that the government is trying to do what is right and put away “criminals”. While watching this documentary I started to compare it to previous documentaries I have seen. Some parts of the movie did meet my expectation. For example, in most documentaries they would show footage from years prior to the movie for the audience to get a visual picture of what the speaker was referring to. This movie also had somethings I did not expect. For instance, in this documentary there are several different people speaking about the same thing, but the director allowed someone with the opposite opinion or the person they referring to speak in the movie on their stance. Another example of how it superseded my expectations is when the director decided to show the words of the songs people wrote that were apart of these different times. In those songs, you can hear people pour their hearts out about the injustice that was taking place around