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Two Towns of Jasper

One murder. Two communities. Three trials. No single truth.

  • 2002
  • 1h 30m
  • Documentary
  • 7.5/10

Using two separate filmmaking teams (an all-white crew filming white residents and an all-black camera crew filming black residents), TWO TOWNS OF JASPER captures very different racial views by townsfolk in Jasper, Texas, the location for a racially motivated murder of an African American man in 1998.