• Director(s)

    Rosemary Rodriguez

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Drama, Mystery

  • Cast

    Octavia Spencer, Mekhi Phifer, Michael Beach

TV Show

Truth Be Told

TRUTH BE TOLD is a US mystery crime thriller series; in this episode, Micah's grief is overtaken by anger after Poppy uncovers a secret about Joshua, and Shreve reveals his diagnosis to his family. …

TRUTH BE TOLD is a US mystery crime thriller series; in this episode, Micah's grief is overtaken by anger after Poppy uncovers a secret about Joshua, and Shreve reveals his diagnosis to his family.

  • Director(s)

    Rosemary Rodriguez

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Crime, Drama, Mystery

  • Cast

    Octavia Spencer, Mekhi Phifer, Michael Beach

Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
strong bloody images, language
Classified Date:
24/10/2022
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
language
There is use of strong language (‘f**k’, ‘motherf**ker’). Milder terms include ‘pissed off’, ‘shit’ and ‘ass’.
injury detail
A pair of corpses are discovered lying in a pool of blood. An artist accidentally cuts their thumb with a blade but then deliberately extends the cut and uses the blood to paint detail on a clay figure, with moderate injury detail.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
There are occasional scenes of moderate threat, such as one in which a Black man is harassed by white police officers, leaving him angry and upset. Infrequent moderate drug references include brief sight of cocaine, but drug misuse is clearly not endorsed. A pair of off-screen deaths are attributed by police to murder-suicide, though this conclusion is immediately disputed. There are infrequent undetailed references to sexual violence. Other issues include infrequent moderate sex references, as well as mild upsetting scenes involving illness and bereavement.
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
strong bloody images
Classified Date:
24/10/2022
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
injury detail
There are brief images of a pair of corpses with bloody bullet wounds, lying in a pool of blood.
There is infrequent use of strong language (‘f**k’); milder terms include ‘prick’, ‘pussy’, ‘bitch’ and ‘shit’. A scene of moderate threat shows an increasingly scared woman being stalked by a mysterious figure in an empty car park. In another scene. a man approaches a woman in an intimidating manner and makes a veiled sexual comment before walking away. There are also mild upsetting scenes involving illness and bereavement, infrequent mild references to miscarriage, and mild references to adultery.
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
strong language
Classified Date:
24/10/2022
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
language
There is use of strong language (‘motherf**ker’, ‘f**k’). Milder terms include ‘bitch’, ‘shit’ and ‘bullshit’.
There are references to historical racism, including a scene in which a former soldier recalls being forced to fight other Black soldiers for the entertainment of white officers; racism is clearly criticised. Infrequent sex references include use of the term ‘f**k’ in the sexual sense. There is a moderate 'jump scare' moment when a woman who thinks she is alone in her house suddenly notices a man standing behind her. In another scene a man is shown taking an unidentified pill. A woman refers to a man making ‘sexual advances’ towards her in a threatening manner, but there is no further detail. There are also infrequent undetailed references to an off-screen suicide.
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
strong language, domestic abuse
Classified Date:
24/10/2022
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
violence
There is a scene of domestic abuse in which a man aggressively pushes a woman back against a wall. There is also a scene in which a man is thrown from a building and there is brief blood in the aftermath. A man attacks a woman in her house; hower, the scene is brief and there is limited detail.
language
There is strong language ('motherf**ker', 'f**k'), as well as milder terms (for example, 'shit', 'piss', 'asshole', 'ass', 'God', 'damn', 'hell').
There are brief references to racism in a scene in which Black man recalls his father being called "boy"'. He also recalls the term being challenged by his father. There are also moderate sex references, as well as scenes of emotional upset.
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
strong language
Classified Date:
24/10/2022
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
language
There is strong language ('motherf**ker', 'f**k'), as well as milder terms (for example, 'shit', 'ass', 'Jesus', 'hell').
There are also brief bloody images in a scene in which a woman is wheeled into hospital.
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
strong language, domestic abuse
Classified Date:
24/10/2022
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
violence
A woman burns the back of her daughter's head with heated curling tongs. In another scene, she aggressively grabs her daughter's arm and drags her away. A woman strikes a man over the head with a plank of wood, followed by sight of his cut forehead and blood on his face. Two women briefly fight in undetailed fashion.
language
There is strong language ('motherf**ker', 'f**k'), as well as milder terms (for example, 'bitch', 'ho', 'shit', 'ass', 'frig', 'piss', 'God', 'damn', 'hell').
There are also references to prescription medication and murder, as well as scenes of emotional upset.
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
strong language
Classified Date:
24/10/2022
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
language
There is strong language ('f**k'), as well as milder terms (for example, 'bitch', 'shit', 'piss', 'asshole', 'damn', 'Jesus').
There is also moderate violence in scenes in which people are beaten and shot; however, there is limited detail. There are also brief references to mental health, scenes of emotional upset, and a brief scene in which a man is injected with a hypodermic syringe.
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
infrequent strong language, brief bloody images, scene of drowning
Classified Date:
24/10/2022
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
violence
In one scene, a female domestic abuser falls in a lake and is left to drown by her foster daughter and the girl's friend. There are also brief verbal domestic abuse references.
language
There is infrequent strong language ('f**k'), as well as milder terms (for example, 'shit', 'ass', 'damn', 'hell').
injury detail
There is brief close-up sight of a woman's bloodstained face and neck.
There is also brief mild threat, as well as mild sex references, and references to suicide and mental health.
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
strong language, violence, domestic abuse, suicide
Classified Date:
24/10/2022
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
violence
A man is stabbed several times in an undetailed fashion; this includes sight of blood on his shirt. There is a scene of domestic abuse in which a woman verbally berates her daughter before burning the back of her head with a straightening iron.
language
There is use of strong language ('motherf**ker', f**k'), and milder terms ('shit', 'ass', 'pissed', 'hell', 'damn', 'God').
suicide and self-harm
There is an undetailed suicide where a man shoots himself in the head.
There are moments of knife and gun threat, and references to racist behaviour towards Black people.
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
strong language
Classified Date:
24/10/2022
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
language
There is strong language ('f**k', 'motherf**ker'), accompanied by other milder terms ('shit', 'bullshit', 'hell', 'God' and 'damn').
There are scenes of moderate violence, such as masked shootings and crunchy beatings with aftermath bloody detail. Crime scene images contain blood on a dead body but are not focused on. A dead body is visible in the context of a crime scene, which is shown without blood or injury detail. A young woman recalls her estranged mother's death, which was a result of drug misuse. There are also moderate sex references, including brief sexualised breast nudity adorning the front of a notebook.
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Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
strong language, violence, sex references, child sex abuse references
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
In a scene of strong violence, using an improvised weapon, a man stabs another through the hand pinning it to a desk in order to gain information from him. There are frequent detailed mentions to the violent strangling of a teenage girl. There is a brief domestic abuse reference in which it is reported that a man pushed his pregnant wife into a table, causing her to go into early labour.
language
Use of strong language ('f**k') is accompanied by moderate ('bitch', 'hooker') and milder terms such as 'bullshit', 'bloody', 'ass' and 'God'.
sex
There is sight of sex workers, some underage, being picked up by men on the streets as well as frequent discussion of prostitution. A reference is made to a girl having had multiple sexual partners in the same day.
sexual violence and sexual threat
Frequent references are made to the exploitation and trafficking of children for sex work.
Scenes contain moderate threat after a teenage girl goes missing and her blood is discovered in a car. Undetailed references are made to drug misuse and dealing. There is emotional upset due to bereavement.
references to sexually abusive behaviour, strong language
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
There is strong language ('f**k') and milder terms which include 'bitch', 'shit', 'ass', 'asshole', 'God', 'damn' and 'hell'.
sexual violence and sexual threat
We hear that a young woman has been filmed as she had sex with her boyfriend without her knowledge. There are references to sex trafficking and pimps, and how sexual abusers of this kind can manipulate their victims into becoming emotionally attached to them. A woman recounts being coerced to have sex with other men as a teenager by her then-boyfriend.
A man grabs and lightly shoves another. A young woman appears to be unknowingly in danger as she rides in a car with a sex trafficker. There are scenes of emotional upset as characters deal with traumatic experiences. A daughter talks to her mother about having sex for the first time.
sexual threat, child sex abuse references, strong language
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
There is strong language ('motherf**ker', 'f**k) and milder terms which include 'bitch', 'bullshit', 'God', 'damn' and 'hell'.
sexual violence and sexual threat
Two men threaten a teenage girl as they attempt to coerce her into dressing in revealing clothes, playing on her romantic feelings for one of them and telling her they will send video footage of her having sex to her friends. There are references to sex trafficking, sexually abusive and coercive behaviour, as well as the trauma caused by these experiences.
We see a dead body with a bloody bullet wound in the chest. A man grabs another by the throat, pinning him onto a table to threaten him. Characters are seen taking pills for recreational use, but it is not clear what these are. There are verbal references to a woman's adultery.
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Classified Date:
10/06/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Please note: each rating can only be used for the distribution method listed in the Use column. For more information on each Use click here.

  • Classified date

    24/10/2022

  • Distributor

    Apple