My Nephew Emmett (2017)

This is a really interesting short film on Emmett Till.  It is one of two Oscar nominated films that takes a hard look at lynching, which probably still happens in some parts of the rural South and certainly happened in 1955 when this occurred.  Emmett Till was a 14 year old boy visiting relatives in the Mississippi Delta from Chicago where he lived.  He was not versed in the humility that was absolutely demanded of African Americans, and it cost him his life.  He said something that the owner of a store he went to felt was disrespectful toward her, and he was kidnapped, beaten, tortured and ultimately shot and put in the river.
When his body was recovered, rather than quietly covering it up, his Chicago family yelled from the rooftops, had an open casket, and published photographs of his mutilated body in Jet magazine.  The deep South was being outed as a place where blacks got no justice and were held in virtual indentured servitude to whites. Poverty is emasculating, and bred sadism as a way to have power.  This film and Mudbound remind us very viscerally of that.