My Nephew Emmett

Synopsis

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.

Top cast

Jasmine Guy

Elizabeth Wright

Charlie Talbert

Sheriff Clarence Strider

Dane Rhodes

J.W. Milam

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L.B. Williams

Mose Wright

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Dorian Davis

Maurice Wright

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Emily Hooper

Carolyn Bryant

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Tylon Larry

Simeon Wright

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William Perkins

Journalist

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Ethan Leaverton

Roy Bryant

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Joshua Wright

Emmett Till