Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992 2017 Watch Free in HD

Damian 'Football' Williams

Lisa Phillips

Daryl Gates

30 August 1926, Highland Park, California, USA

Tom Bradley

29 December 1917, Calvert, Texas, USA

Donnell Alexander

July 30, 1966 in Sandusky, Ohio, USA

John Ridley

October1965, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

John Ridley

October1965, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Chicago Reader

Not wasting a minute of its two-and-a-half-hour running time, this remarkable documentary echoes O.J: Made in America by examining the Los Angeles riots.

August 10, 2017

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Common Sense Media

Wrenching, must-see docu probes racial violence in L.A.

April 26, 2017

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Laramie Movie Scope

This long documentary (two hours, 24 minutes) takes us back 10 years before the L.A. riots and shows us events which led up to them. The film pays particular attention to the relationships between police, blacks and the Korean American communities.

October 15, 2017

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San Francisco Chronicle

What makes the astoundingly edited "Let It Fall" so powerful is that it's an oral history, told through many angles: residents, police officers, victims, families of the victims, witnesses, jurors and a host of others.

August 30, 2017

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The Nation

It's like looking into the heart of all those single flames that made the conflagration.

April 27, 2017

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Los Angeles Times

The strength of "Let It Fall" is in its remarkable contemporary interviews, compelling both for the people recorded and the way the conversations are allowed to unfold.

April 20, 2017

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Flavorwire

'Let It Fall''s construction is shrewd: it moves fast from the verdict into the riot, far faster than the other films, but effectively dramatizes the speed with which the conflict escalated.

May 06, 2017

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TheWrap

Laying a groundwork of personal testimony and archival assemblage that tells the story of what Ridley calls "the uprising," there's directness when needed, detail (often horrific) when appropriate, and complexity where least expected.

April 21, 2017

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New York Times

Teeming with acts both heroic and reprehensible, John Ridley's wrenchingly humane documentary, "Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992," reveals the Los Angeles riots as the almost inevitable culmination of a decade of heightening racial tensions.

April 20, 2017

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Reel Talk Online

Juxtaposing footage of the actual events with the narrative of each of their storytellers, Let It Fall does its part to maintain a sense of urgency around a narrative that still needs to be discussed, interrogated, and accounted for.

April 21, 2017

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews

An essential documentary that covers the heightened racial tensions in LA from 1982-1992.

October 02, 2017

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Chicago Tribune

[Let it Fall] accomplishes what straightforward nonfiction narrative can do in the best of circumstance.

September 19, 2017

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