Movie
When a Witness Recants
2026 · 112 min
A sober, sorrowful reckoning that asks you to sit with decades of injustice and its slow, partial undoing.
- Directed by
- Dawn Porter
- Genres
- Documentary, Animation
- Tagline
- A reckoning 36 years in the making
- Overview
- In 1983, author Ta-Nehisi Coates learned that a 14-year-old boy was murdered in his Baltimore middle school. Upon revisiting the case, he uncovers the truth: Three innocent teenagers were wrongfully convicted and spent 36 years in prison — creating a lasting impact on the accused, the witnesses, and their community.
- How it feels
- Bleak, melancholic, earnest and tense. Measured and demanding.
- About
- Justice, corruption, trauma, race
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Dawn Porter
- Genres
- Documentary, Animation