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Certification
| MPAA | Rated PG-13 for some violence and disturbing images, language, sexual material, thematic elements and smoking |
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Sex & Nudity
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- Cleavage can be seen on a female character a couple times
- In a bedroom scene, a woman is seen covered by a quilt and her husband is wearing a T-shirt and is covered from the waist down. (sex is implied).
- A butler asks a kitchen worker to have sex and that he will put towels down on the kitchen floor for it; she declines.
- A black velvet painting shows a topless woman.
- A man in a kitchen begins to tell a sexual joke: "She says to put my whole hand in, then to put my other hand in. Now, clap! I said, I can't'"; then he mouths a few words during loud kitchen noise and the punch line is inaudible.
Violence & Gore
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- Two night scenes show two hanged men dead in closeup with blood seeping from the ropes around their necks.
- On a plantation worked by sharecroppers, a male owner takes a bi-racial woman into a shed and we hear screams (rape is implied); the woman's young son shouts and the man exits the shed and shoots the boy's father (there's no blood) in front of him; the boy screams and cries as the owner asks who else wants to be shot and walks away; later, we see the boy's mother sitting in front of her cabin, catatonic and we hear that she is crazy.
- KKK members in a truck topped with a lighted cross stop a bus of Freedom Riders, spit on the windows, break the windows with ball bats, rock the bus and shout unintelligible taunts; men and women on the bus scream while men with torches set fire to the bus; a man wearing a white sheet and hood douses the vehicle with gasoline and the screen goes white; we then see an original photo of the bus in the 1960s, with its top half burned off and the rest charred.
- We hear gunshots offscreen and the scene cuts to Jackie Kennedy sitting on a sofa with blood covering the skirt of her suit and her lower legs while she cries and howls in anguish; a butler says in the kitchen, "They blew his head off."
- A couple is shot at three times on the street and they duck into an alley, unharmed.
- Several violent scenes from the 1950s-1970s Civil Rights Movement show original footage of race riots with African-Americans being beaten by police and dragged away by the feet; in Selma, fire hoses and dogs are turned loose on African-Americans, who scream and cry (no bites are shown) and people are beaten and carried away; in the current time, a man lies in a jailhouse bunk and his face/eyes very swollen and bruised.
- We hear that Martin Luther King, Jr. is dead and we see streets full of storefronts in Washington, DC smashed in with barrels and bricks; men and women run, screaming and crying and we see footage of inner city rubble and slums.
- Actual footage of Vietnam warfare is shown with bombs that cause some flames with large amounts of smoke, along with soldiers shooting rifles.
- African-Americans and supportive whites sit at a Woolworth lunch counter and cannot get service; after several hours, white people come in and slap the seated people in the head, spit in their faces, shake them and slap them while a counter manager tosses hot coffee into an African-American man's face, causing him to scream; the police arrest the people seated at the counter and they receive 30 days in jail.
- A man and his son argue over politics very loudly in several scenes spanning years and the man finally orders the son and his Black Panther girlfriend out of the house; in one scene, the man slaps the son in the face and in another scene, the mother slaps the son in the face; in a third scene, the mother slaps a younger son in the side of the face and neck.
- A newspaper shows a black-and-white picture of an African-American man with his head and face smashed in.
- An African-American man punches through hotel window glass to obtain food and we see his bloody hand; an older man bandages the younger man's hand and slaps him in the face for calling himself a derogatory term for African Americans.
- A group of people is shown being trained to withstand an attack by providing attacks and verbal abuse to each other in groups seated on chairs in a Civil Rights club meeting.
- A speaker at a Black Panther meeting tells the group to kill two whites for every African-American that dies in a riot and a woman says that she is ready to do so while a man says that he is not and he quits the group; we hear that two members of the group were shot dead.
Profanity
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- language is very provocative and pervasive.
- Heavy use of the N-Word, including the hard R. It is used in the movie to illustrate racism.
- In one scene Richard Nixon said 'But do you really want that spoiled Rich son of a bitch, fuck to be your next president, 10 scatological terms, 7 anatomical terms, 13 mild obscenities, 24 derogatory terms for African-Americans.
- One scene used over 35 uses of the word 'nigga'.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- A butler takes two prescription bottles from the Dallas assassination and keeps them on his nightstand at home.
- Glasses of champagne are served at a state dinner at the White House and we see men and women drinking.
- Men and women drink from bottles of beer on their front porch.
- Men and women drink short cocktails and bottles of beer.
- Many open bottles of alcohol sit on a table at a party.
- Men and women at home drink wine at dinner.
- A man drinks a cocktail alone.
- A woman opens a bottle of wine and then closes it without a drink.
- Butlers serve cocktails and beer in hotel restaurants and to various US Presidents.
- White House butlers and kitchen staff drink a champagne toast in the kitchen.
- Men and women smoke cigarettes at home as well as on the street and in restaurants and on television shows and at parties.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- The atmosphere of the movie is highly somber and infrequently intense.
- Scenes revolving around violence and hate crimes, as well as fighting that breaks out at racial protests, are emotional.
