13th

Ava DuVernay draws a direct line from the 13th Amendment's slavery loophole ("except as punishment for crime") to America's mass incarceration crisis. The U.S. has 5% of the world's population and 25% of its prisoners — and this film shows you exactly how that happened, decade by decade, policy by policy. Netflix released it for free on YouTube during the 2020 protests. It's been viewed over 26 million times for a reason.