Boiling Point (2021)
Season 1
Investigating instances of police brutality, voter suppression, school segregation, environmental racism and mass incarceration throughout American history, and the impact those injustices have had on equality.
Released Feb. 21, 2021
Episode 42 min
14+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: imdb.social-documentary, imdb.social-issues
Network: BET
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Los Angeles
The 1992 L.A. riots that erupted after the officers on trial for beating Rodney King were acquitted are analyzed and compared to recent social injustices.
Feb. 21, 2021, midnight
S1E2 - Attica
The roots of America's mass incarceration problem are traced back to the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, an incident authorities whitewashed and re-framed as a violent riot led by Black inmates.
Feb. 28, 2021, midnight
S1E3 - Bloody Sunday
John Lewis and other civil rights activists faced down police on a Selma, AL, bridge in a violent clash that galvanized the public and led to Congress passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
March 9, 2021, midnight
S1E4 - Schoolhouse Door
Alabama Governor George Wallace's attempt to bar two Black students from entering the University of Alabama in 1963 is examined and compared to the segregation barriers that still endure
March 14, 2021, midnight
S1E5 - Hurricane Katrina
Environmental racism, like the federal government's inadequate response to Hurricane Katrina, has fueled disparities in Black communities and left them vulnerable to COVID-19.
March 23, 2021, midnight
S1E6 - George Floyd
The murders of George Floyd, Michael Brown and other victims of excessive force shined a light on police brutality and sparked an important social justice movement around the world.
March 30, 2021, midnight
Network: BET
Episode Runtime: 42 min.
Season Runtime: 252 min.
Released: Feb. 21, 2021
Last Air Date: March 30, 2021, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
Common sense age: 14+
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