The reason Hollywood wanted to nix Tulsa Race Massacre docs
LA TimesWhen filmmaker Jonathan Silvers got the idea a few years ago to make a documentary about the 1921 annihilation of Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Okla. — the most deadly and destructive racist attack in U.S. history — he imagined he would have no trouble finding a distributor. The other documentaries airing this weekend are “Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre”, a two-hour film directed by Emmy winner Stanley Nelson and Marco Williams and executive produced by NBA star Russell Westbrook, among others; “Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street”, a two-hour film from director Salima Koroma, produced in collaboration with NBA superstar LeBron James’ Springhill Entertainment Co.; and the two-part docuseries “The Legacy of Black Wall Street”. “They said, ‘Did this really happen?’” Brown was one of the first journalists who started digging into Tulsa’s troubled past, and the coverup thereof, when she visited her father in Tulsa in 2018. Television ‘Watchmen’s’ provocative portrait of race in America has its own creator worried HBO’s “Watchmen” examines race, white supremacy and police brutality. Sunday night’s series premiere has creator Damon Lindelof asking, “Should we have done it?” Silvers said, “‘Watchmen’ changed things a little bit.
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