
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook
2019

Representation Score
Excellent
2020
PG-13Director
Lisa Cortés, Liz Garbus
Runtime
102 minutes
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All In: The Fight for Democracy is a documentary that challenges conventional historical narratives. It excels by focusing on the central role of underrepresented communities, particularly the Black experience, in shaping American democracy. However, the film's scope remains limited to certain themes, such as racial issues, and does not explicitly engage with LGBTQ+ identities or disability-specific barriers to voting.
Category Breakdown
The film does not focus on LGBTQ+ identities or non-traditional gender narratives. Instead, it emphasizes historical racial issues over specific voting barriers faced by LGBTQ+ individuals.
The narrative challenges traditional gender roles by highlighting the crucial role of Black women in the fight for suffrage and civil rights. It positions women as key figures in driving change.
The Black experience is central to the political discourse in the film. It uses the Black perspective as the core lens to examine American democracy and historical racial divisions.
The documentary questions the effectiveness of Western democratic systems and the idea of a merit-based society free of racial bias. It highlights the Black church as a critical site of political resistance.
There is no significant focus on disability representation. The film discusses systemic barriers primarily through the lens of race and legal status, rather than physical or neurological differences.
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Limited or Absent
Official Synopsis
Examines the often overlooked, yet insidious issue of voter suppression in the United States in anticipation of the 2020 presidential election. With the perspective and expertise of Stacey Abrams, the former Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives, the film offers an insider’s look into laws and barriers to voting that most people don’t even know is a threat to their basic rights as citizens of the United States.

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