Boiling Point

Season

2021

USA

4.7

Boiling Point investigates instances of police brutality, voter suppression, school segregation, environmental racism and mass incarceration throughout American history, and the impact those injustices have had on equality.

Episode List

S1 • E1

L.A.

The 1992 L.A. riots that erupted after the officers on trial for beating Rodney King were acquitted are analyzed and compared to recent social injustices.

S1 • E2

Attica

The roots of America's mass incarceration problem are traced back to the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, an incident authorities whitewashed and re-framed as a violent riot led by Black inmates.

S1 • E3

Bloody Sunday

John Lewis and other civil rights activists faced down police on a Selma, AL, bridge in a violent clash that galvanized the public and led to Congress passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.