Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are) (2021)
Coming Out at June 17, 2021 on Peacock
Documentary, Drama
Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are) is documentary drama film directed and written by Rachel Boynton. The film stars Rachel Boynton, Cate Arnold, Robert Epperson, Herbert DeLoach Jr., David Blight, Antwayn Patrick and Chris Carpenter.
Urgent and complex, Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are) travels across the United States, exploring how Americans tell the story of their Civil War. Filmed from the last year of Obama’s presidency through the present, it interweaves insightful scenes and touching interviews filmed North and South, painting a uniquely crafted, multi-faceted portrait of the American psyche and the deep roots of its turbulent times. With delicacy and strength, subtlety and determination, Civil War lays bare a nation in denial, haunted by an embittered past and the stories it refuses to tell.
Director: Rachel Boynton
Writer: Rachel Boynton
Stars: Rachel Boynton, Cate Arnold, Robert Epperson, Herbert DeLoach Jr., David Blight, Antwayn Patrick, Chris Carpenter
►Cast
| Rachel Boynton | ► | Documentary Filmmaker |
| Cate Arnold | ► | Boston School Teacher |
| Robert Epperson | ► | Sons Of Confederate Veterans |
| Herbert DeLoach Jr. | ► | Sons Of Confederate Veterans |
| David Blight | ► | Author, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory |
| Antwayn Patrick | ► | Lexington School Teacher |
| Chris Carpenter | ► | Chattanooga School Teacher |
| Kellie Carter Jackson | ► | Author, Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence |
| Clyde Magee | ► | Resident of Mize, Mississippi |
| Kyle Magee | ► | Resident of Mize, Mississippi |
| Frank Smith Jr. | ► | Director, African American Civil War Memorial and Museum |
| Dale Julius | ► | East Bridgewater Civil War Roundtable |
| Greg Carr | ► | Professor, Howard University |
| William Rogers | ► | Mississippi Department of Archives and History |
| Melissa Janczewski Jones | ► | Visiting Professor, Mississippi College |
| James Robinson | ► | Resident of Clinton, Mississippi |
| Deborah Robinson | ► | Resident of Clinton, Mississippi |
| Stephanie Rolph | ► | Assistant Professor, Millsaps College |
| William Shirley | ► | Mississippi State Representative |
| Malcolm Suber | ► | Take ‘Em Down NOLA |
| Chris McDaniel | ► | Mississippi State Senator |
| LaFrederick Thirkill | ► | Chattanooga School Principal |
| Ibram X. Kendi | ► | Director, Boston University Center for Antiracist Research |
| Kehinde Wiley | ► | Artist |