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Ku Klux Klan: An American Story: Season 1

Miniseries 2020

  • 2020-10-05T22:00:00Z on Arte
  • 53m
  • 1h 46m (2 episodes)
  • France
  • French
  • Documentary, War
Since its birth in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War, the history of the Ku Klux Klan has been inseparable from that of the United States. The debates over slavery, the populism of the roaring twenties, the struggle for civil rights, the rise of the far-right; the Klan seems to have always embodied the dark side of the nation, with its gray areas and blind spots.

2 episodes

Series Premiere

2020-10-05T22:00:00Z

1x01 Birth of the Invisible Empire

Series Premiere

1x01 Birth of the Invisible Empire

  • 2020-10-05T22:00:00Z53m

How the Ku Klux Klan, the oldest terrorist gang in the United States of America, was founded in the wake of the American Civil War (1861-65). After the defeat of the Confederation, the Klan uses intimidation, attacks and lynching to beat down the newly free black population…

2020-10-05T22:00:00Z

1x02 Resurrections

1x02 Resurrections

  • 2020-10-05T22:00:00Z53m

When, in the 1950s, the civil rights movement begins the fight for equal rights for African-Americans, the Invisible Empire and white supremacy groups wake again and establish a reign of terror and violence in Southern states.

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