A Binding Truth

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A Binding Truth

2023

1h 32m

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They were high school classmates in 1965. Jimmie transferred his senior year to an affluent high school in Charlotte -- he was their first Black football star. That decision swept him into one of North Carolina's most volatile civil rights cases, played out at the explosive intersection of football and race. De watched that case unfold and wrote about it in his college essay application. Decades later, a shocking discovery reveals secrets found buried in church records that would change their lives. Their story, rooted in the South, is also America's story -- one of slavery’s legacy and our current racial divide. It's a story of healing and shows a way forward as Jimmie and De explore their binding truth.

Will Bjarnar

InSession Film

07/02/2024

B

It’s not the type of documentary that needs to go to overly dramatic lengths in order to tell its story, nor should it. It’s academic but not cold or distant...

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Alton Williams

Battle Royale With Cheese

02/26/2024

A Blinding Truth is a powerful film about race relations in America. We cannot advance as a society without having important uncomfortable discussions that one needs to have to be able to move forward by examining the past.

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Federico Furzan

Movie-Blogger.com

02/09/2024

A powerful portrayal of a cathartic meeting between two men who didn't know how close they were in terms of history.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

02/06/2024

3.5/4.0

A Binding Truth captures both the intimacy and universality of racism in a way that hits you like a gut-check.

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Dallas King

Flick Feast

11/16/2023

3/5

Slavery may have ended, but the scar tissue that it left in the country has never truly healed. A Binding Truth is a confronting and eye-opening film that can help further the discussion in wider America.

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Kenneth R. Morefield

1More Film Blog

11/06/2023

3/4

Director Louise Woehrle’s best achievement may be that she crafts a film that maintains most of its interest after its not-really-hiding-in-plain-sight twist is revealed.

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They were high school classmates in 1965. Jimmie transferred his senior year to an affluent high school in Charlotte -- he was their first Black football star. That decision swept him into one of North Carolina's most volatile civil rights cases, played out at the explosive intersection of football and race. De watched that case unfold and wrote about it in his college essay application. Decades later, a shocking discovery reveals secrets found buried in church records that would change their lives. Their story, rooted in the South, is also America's story -- one of slavery’s legacy and our current racial divide. It's a story of healing and shows a way forward as Jimmie and De explore their binding truth.

Director: Louise Woehrle
Producer: Louise Woehrle
Production Co: Whirlygig Productions
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 32m