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New Yorkers, check it out — it’s now playing at the Film Forum.

The murder of Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old African-American in Money, Mississippi — and the sham trial that followed — helped spark America’s civil rights movement. For allegedly whistling at a white woman in public, Till was tortured, beaten beyond recognition and thrown into the Tallahatchie River. Fifty years later, Louisiana-born filmmaker Keith Beauchamp has reconstructed the case and found that responsibility for the murder extends beyond the two good ole boys who were acquitted by an all-white jury. In addition to remarkable testimony from Emmett’s mother, Mamie Till Mobley, who died in 2003, Beauchamp interviews eyewitnesses whose stories have never been told and discovers potentially guilty parties still living and liable for prosecution. As a result of the film’s revelations, the U.S. Justice Department reopened this infamous case.