The documentary 'Riotsville, USA' looks at the nation in the late 1960s when nightly civil unrest provoked calls for law and order.
weaves together three main threads. The film’s title is drawn from a series of exercises conducted by the U.S. military and law enforcement, which involved constructing fake city blocks and simulating violent protests to test new strategies for quelling public disturbances. The footage from these demonstrations — long buried in a government archive — are the main selling-point of “Riotsville, USA.
The third thread ties the other two together. Pettengill digs up TV news stories about the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami, which isn’t talked about today as much as thea few weeks later. The nomination and eventual election of Richard Nixon would ultimately close the book on the Kerner Commission’s recommendations — aside from the report’s suggestion that cities increase their police budgets.
There’s a clear point of view to “Riotsville, USA,” likely to appeal more to the “defund the police” crowd than to people with “Blue Lives Matter” stickers on their cars. Still, by letting the archival material carry most of the weight, Pettengill creates an instructive kind of time-travel experience for viewers of all political persuasions, transporting them to a past hauntingly similar to our present.
From the unshakable objectivity of the news anchors to the impassioned statements of the protesters in the streets, “Riotsville, USA” re-creates both the mood of the times and the frustratingly narrow mainstream perspective on what everyone was so angry about. By the end, this becomes a film about how and why we seem to keep having the same arguments, generation after generation.
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