• Director(s)

    Yance Ford

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    10/05/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    89m

  • Cast

    Charlie Adams, Baher Azmy, Paul Butler

Film

Power

strong language, real violence, threat, discrimination

This hard-hitting US documentary uses archive footage and academic commentary to examine the origin, structure and impact of police power in the United States, featuring distressing scenes of real violence and racism.…

This hard-hitting US documentary uses archive footage and academic commentary to examine the origin, structure and impact of police power in the United States, featuring distressing scenes of real violence and racism.

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violence

threat and horror

language

discrimination

drugs

sexual violence and sexual threat

disturbing images

sex

  • Director(s)

    Yance Ford

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    10/05/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    89m

  • Cast

    Charlie Adams, Baher Azmy, Paul Butler

strong language, real violence, threat, discrimination
Classified Date:
05/04/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Netflix International B.V.
violence
Footage captures police brutality and depicts Black people being beaten, hosed, shot, and pinned to the ground by police. A montage of stop-and-frisk operations includes footage of a woman being held in a chokehold before being pinned down by two male police officers. A person is run down by a vehicle and dragged underneath briefly. In another scene, an elderly man is pushed onto the pavement by advancing police in an unprovoked attack, from which he suffered a fatal head injury; blood is briefly seen flowing from the man's ear. Photographs depict water-based methods of torture.
threat and horror
Archive footage captures people of colour under threat from police, largely in a US context, during protests, riots and stop-and-frisk operations. Scenes feature distressed Black citizens being held at gunpoint by police.
language
There is use of strong language ('f**k'), accompanied by other moderate ('bitch'), and milder terms ('dick', 'ass', 'bullshit', 'God' and 'hell').
discrimination
Racism is explored in relation to policing practices in the US. Archive footage depicts violence towards marginalised people of colour across history. There is use of discriminatory language (e.g. 'n****r', 'monkey', 'negro'), mostly in historical contexts. People of colour recall their own experiences of the racism at the hands of US police. There are also references to the deaths. Accompanying commentary by academics and other public figures fiercely condemns racism and police brutality.
drugs
There are undetailed verbal references to drug dealing.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A historical instructional video depicts male police officers groping at a woman's clothed chest.
disturbing images
Archive footage contains images of real dead bodies, but these are not focused on in close-up and are depicted with minimal levels of blood and injury.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
Classified Date:
27/04/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Netflix International B.V.

  • Classified date

    05/04/2024

  • Language

    English