Eye-opening docu on horrific '50s murder has graphic images.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2019

Features some sweet moments of reflection by the late Mamie Till during which she wistfully reminisces about the intelligent, curious and animated son taken away from her so brutally and senselessly.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 31, 2007

In his retelling of the events, Beauchamp reconstructs the legacy of diaspora.

| Mar 1, 2007

Beauchamp, who worked on his film for nine years, dutifully reinterviews the surviving witnesses, and more effectively than any previous documentary or return look at the case, re-creates the atmosphere of a 1950s Mississippi.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 17, 2006

uncovers additional evidence and becomes both a suitable memorial as well as a call to action

| Original Score: B | Feb 12, 2006

This well-focused, short (75 minute) film will be an eye opener for those who didn't live through the era. For those who did, it will be all too familiar.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 9, 2006

The film is only 70 minutes long, but it is nearly impossible to sit through, not only because of the lingering image at its center of Emmett Till's battered body but because of the visceral sense of outrage it can't help but provoke in you.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Feb 3, 2006

Beauchamp reaches this point without exploitation or cheap foreshadowing; there are no dramatic music stings underlying the outwardly innocuous biography before it methodically descends into true American tragedy.

| Jan 12, 2006

It seems all too easy nowadays to think this stuff is all ancient history...Beauchamp's bracing wake-up call shows otherwise.

Full Review | Dec 9, 2005

Potent and searing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 2, 2005

The story has been told often in film and literature, but in The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till ... director Keith Beauchamp takes a rewarding approach.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 28, 2005

You leave the theater feeling moved by a mother's courage, sickened by the crime and a little frustrated, wondering if this unquiet moment in our history will ever rest easy.

| Oct 14, 2005

Whatever power Keith Beauchamp's film possesses as a work of art has been superseded by its political impact...

Full Review | Original Score: '3/4' | Oct 14, 2005

Beauchamp expertly excerpts long stretches from the extensive television coverage of the 1955 events, juxtaposing them with present-day interviews with the people who lived though these traumatic happenings.

| Oct 13, 2005

Beauchamp must be applauded for not only for his investigative daring but also for his unflinching courage.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 13, 2005

A testament to the power of film.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Oct 13, 2005

[Beauchamp's film] has an earnest solemnity that is appropriate to the material.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 6, 2005

I expect more from a theatrical release, more than just information presented in an orderly fashion.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 1, 2005

One of the most powerful, important things a documentary can do is bear witness to man's inhumanity to man, and document for posterity crimes that cry out for justice, however tardy.

| Oct 1, 2005

A painful reminder that reparations still need to be made for what whites have done to blacks in this country.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 1, 2005