Amend: The Fight for America

2021

Created by Tom Yellin, Robe Imbriano
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6 episodes
Documentary

When the United States of America was founded, the ideals of freedom and equality did not apply to all people.... More

When the United States of America was founded, the ideals of freedom and equality did not apply to all people. These are the stories of the brave Americans who fought to right the nation’s wrongs and enshrine the values we hold most dear into the Constitution — with liberty and justice for all.

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Where to watch Amend: The Fight for America

Amend: The Fight for America is available to stream in... More Australia now on Netflix.

Amend: The Fight for America episodes

Citizen

After escaping slavery, Frederick Douglass becomes a pivotal voice calling... More for citizenship for Black Americans, a dream realized in the 14th Amendment.

Resistance

After ratification, violent atrocities, court rulings and the Lost Cause... More ideology systematically subvert the 14th Amendment's promises of equality.

Wait

As the civil rights movement gains momentum in the 1960s,... More Martin Luther King Jr. orchestrates protests that goad President John F. Kennedy into action.

Control

In the 1970s, women appeal to evolving interpretations of the... More 14th Amendment in their fight to achieve equality and control their own destinies.

Love

After decades of setbacks, the struggle for same-sex marriage equality... More culminates in an Ohio couple's case taken up by the Supreme Court in 2015.

Promise

Immigrants have long put their hope in America, but intolerant... More policies, racism and shocking violence have frequently trampled their dreams.

Amend: The Fight for America | Ratings & Reviews

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"A very informative docuseries..."

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Decider

"Amend makes legal history approachable and digestible."

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Hollywood Reporter

"This is must-see viewing for everyone who believes in the all-encompassing, freedom-guaranteeing powers of the 14th Amendment..."

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Chicago Sun-Times

"It's a reminder that securing the protections granted by the 14th Amendment -- like America itself -- remains very much a work in progress."

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CNN

"While this may be well-known to some, if you are looking for a teaching tool about recent and not-so-recent history, you could do a great deal worse than this."

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Variety

"[Breaks] down dusty declarations in terms that the average person can understand..."

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Salon

"A charismatic Will Smith, a few little known facts, and a particularly uplifting episode give this docuseries about the importance of the 14th Amendment a reason to exist."

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