Members-Only Advance Screening—Silver Dollar Road

LACMA members are invited to join FILM at LACMA for a special advance screening of Silver Dollar Road.

From Academy-Award® nominee Raoul Peck, Silver Dollar Road follows the story of the Reels family as told by the matriarch, Mamie Reels Ellison, and her niece Kim Renee Duhon, two fierce and clear-eyed women bending to safeguard valiantly their ancestors’ land and their brothers and uncles Melvin and Licurtis, who were wrongfully imprisoned for eight years—the longest sentence for civil contempt in North Carolina history.  

This documentary, based on the 2019 ProPublica article, highlights the covert ways the legal system has been exploited to keep Black land ownership fragile and the racial wealth gap growing

Watch the official trailer. Silver Dollar Road will be in select theaters on October 13 and streaming on Prime Video starting October 20.

You will receive a link to view the film and the post-screening conversation on the event date.

Please note that this film is exclusively available for streaming between the hours of 7 to 11 pm only.

This screening is hosted by Slipstream, a LACMA-approved third-party screening platform. If you have not previously registered with Slipstream, you will be asked to provide a valid email address and set a password to create an account.