EP 1AvailableNow playingCitizen
56m·2/17/2021·4.0
After escaping slavery, Frederick Douglass becomes a pivotal voice calling for citizenship for Black Americans, a dream realized in the 14th Amendment.
Amend: The Fight for America
Season 1 · Episode 1IMDb7.1
- Released
- 2/17/2021
- Duration
- 1h 0m
- Genre
- Documentary, War & Politics
- Country
- United States of America
- Cast
- Will Smith, Bryan Stevenson
Overview
Will Smith hosts this look at the evolving, often lethal, fight for equal rights in America through the lens of the US Constitution's 14th Amendment.
Episodes
EP 1AvailableNow playing
EP 2AvailableResistance
57m·2/17/2021·4.0
After ratification, violent atrocities, court rulings and the Lost Cause ideology systematically subvert the 14th Amendment's promises of equality.
EP 3AvailableWait
58m·2/17/2021·4.0
As the civil rights movement gains momentum in the 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. orchestrates protests that goad President John F. Kennedy into action.
EP 4AvailableControl
62m·2/17/2021·4.0
In the 1970s, women appeal to evolving interpretations of the 14th Amendment in their fight to achieve equality and control their own destinies.
EP 5AvailableLove
57m·2/17/2021·4.5
After decades of setbacks, the struggle for same-sex marriage equality culminates in an Ohio couple's case taken up by the Supreme Court in 2015.
EP 6AvailablePromise
60m·2/17/2021·4.0
Immigrants have long put their hope in America, but intolerant policies, racism and shocking violence have frequently trampled their dreams.
Cast
Self - Host
Will Smith
Self
