Riotsville, U.S.A. Movie 2022, Official Trailer, Release Date, HD Poster & Cast Name

Genre: Documentary, History

Language: English

Director: Sierra Pettengill

Producer: Sara Archambault, Jamila Wignot

Writer: Tobi Haslett

Release date: September 16, 2022

Cast Name:  Michael Pate, Charlene Modeste

Where to Watch: IN Theatres

Riotsville, U.S.A. Movie 2022, Official Trailer, Release Date, HD Poster

 Welcome to RIOTSVILLE, USA, a turning point in American history where the protest movements of the late 1960s came into conflict with increasingly militarized police departments. Focusing on unearthed military training footage of Army-built model towns called “Riotsvilles,” where military and police were trained to respond to civil disorder in the aftermath of the Kerner Commission created by President Lyndon B. Johnson, director Sierra Pettengill’s kaleidoscopic all-archival documentary reconstructs the formation of a national consciousness obsessed with maintaining law and order by any means necessary. Drawing insight from a time similar to our own, RIOTSVILLE, USA pulls focus on American institutional control and offers a compelling case that if the history of race in America rhymes, it is by design.