![]() Especially poignant are the interviews and scenes within our schools, where teachers and students struggle to make sense of the hold that the Civil War has on us still. From flags and monuments in the town square to family photos and forlorn cemeteries, we, the living, continue to grapple with how to confront this singular event of national trauma and the horrific slave system at its deepest confounding root. “In this time of reckoning in the country, Rachel Boynton’s journey into the heart of Civil War memory reveals just how contested, and personal, the meaning of this defining event in our history remains. Joshua Oppenheimer, director of The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence “Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are)” is a layered, nuanced, structurally original work, and as a new Civil Rights movement at long last gathers momentum, the film’s call for empathy and self-examination could not be more urgent.” She fearlessly asks questions not only of her subjects but of herself. ![]() Rachel’s interviews contain moments so tender and intimate that they feel like revelations. What a heart-breaking portrayal of a divided nation that, finally, may be reckoning with the legacy of slavery. “Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are)” brought me to tears again and again. It should be on every American History syllabus.” Kellie Carter Jackson, Associate Professor of Africana Studies ![]() It is all at once hopeful, maddening, and honest. I think a film like this is best suited for the classroom because it will compel educators and students to think deeply and critically at the ways American History has been presented to us. “Rachel Boynton is masterful in her questioning and range of interviews for The Civil War (or Who Do We Think We Are).
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