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Synopsis
Amend: The Fight for America (2021), Season 1 — watch online on iFILM. Six episodes, Netflix. Will Smith hosts a documentary series built around the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, ratified in 1868 to guarantee citizenship and equal protection to all Americans.
The series moves thematically and chronologically at once. Frederick Douglass and the campaign for Black citizenship. Then how that campaign was dismantled — through court decisions, the collapse of Reconstruction, and organized terror. Martin Luther King Jr. calculating protests in the 1960s until President Kennedy runs out of ways to look away. Women in the 1970s reframing what "equal" actually means. An Ohio couple's same-sex marriage case climbing to the Supreme Court. Immigrants — and the distance between what the document says and what they actually find.
Mahershala Ali, Pedro Pascal, Samuel L. Jackson, and Diane Lane read the historical record. It's the right format: a century and a half of legal abstraction becomes a sequence of real people at specific moments. Stream Season 1 of Amend online on iFILM.
6 episodes
S1·E1Citizen
After escaping slavery, Frederick Douglass becomes a pivotal voice calling for citizenship for Black Americans, a dream realized in the 14th Amendment.
S1·E2Resistance
After ratification, violent atrocities, court rulings and the Lost Cause ideology systematically subvert the 14th Amendment's promises of equality.
S1·E3Wait
As the civil rights movement gains momentum in the 1960s, Martin Luther King Jr. orchestrates protests that goad President John F. Kennedy into action.
S1·E4Control
In the 1970s, women appeal to evolving interpretations of the 14th Amendment in their fight to achieve equality and control their own destinies.
S1·E5Love
After decades of setbacks, the struggle for same-sex marriage equality culminates in an Ohio couple's case taken up by the Supreme Court in 2015.
S1·E6Promise
Immigrants have long put their hope in America, but intolerant policies, racism and shocking violence have frequently trampled their dreams.
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