My Nephew Emmett

*6.3

Status

Released

Production

Tisch School of the Arts (NYU)

Aired

2018-02-09

My Nephew Emmett

This visually ravishing and thought-provoking work portrays one of the USA’s great shames—the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till by two white men in Mississippi—and movingly reminds us of this dark episode’s enduring relevance.