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Between the World and Me

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The special will include powerful readings from Ta-Nehisi Coates' book, it will also incorporate documentary footage from the actors' home life, archival footage, and animation.
Director
Kamilah Forbes
Year
2020
Genre
documentary
Box Office
N/A
Production
HBO Documentary Films
Awards
Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. 2 wins & 4 nominations total
Homepage
https://www.hbo.com/specials/between-the-world-and-me
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I'm telling you this in your 15th year - Between the World and Me 00:04
I'm telling you this in your 15th year
To be Black in the Baltimore of my youth - Between the World and Me 00:17
To be Black in the Baltimore of my youth
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - Between the World and Me 00:07
♪ (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
The nakedness is the intended result of policy. - Between the World and Me 00:07
The nakedness is the intended result of policy.
The system makes your body breakable. - Between the World and Me 00:25
The system makes your body breakable.
I was in sixth grade, and school had just gotten out. - Between the World and Me 00:22
I was in sixth grade, and school had just gotten out.
I recall this in the slowest motion - Between the World and Me 00:14
I recall this in the slowest motion
I saw this surging rage - Between the World and Me 00:06
I saw this surging rage
(SCOFFS) He did not need to shoot. - Between the World and Me 00:04
(SCOFFS) He did not need to shoot.
He had let it be known how easily I could be selected. - Between the World and Me 00:05
He had let it be known how easily I could be selected.
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ - Between the World and Me 00:09
♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
The projects, a drunken stepfather, - Between the World and Me 00:09
The projects, a drunken stepfather,
(SCOFFS) - Between the World and Me 00:19
(SCOFFS)
And the other portion is not. - Between the World and Me 00:05
And the other portion is not.
I felt in this a cosmic injustice, a... - Between the World and Me 00:16
I felt in this a cosmic injustice, a...
♪ ("BLACK" BY BUDDY FT. ASAP FERG PLAYING) ♪ - Between the World and Me 00:41
♪ ("BLACK" BY BUDDY FT. ASAP FERG PLAYING) ♪
The Dream. - Between the World and Me 00:08
The Dream.
♪ (CHIMING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - Between the World and Me 00:32
♪ (CHIMING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
The Dream seemed to be the end of the world for me, - Between the World and Me 00:17
The Dream seemed to be the end of the world for me,
♪ (DISCORDANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - Between the World and Me 00:18
♪ (DISCORDANT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
because the Dream rests on our backs, - Between the World and Me 00:21
because the Dream rests on our backs,
But above all, - Between the World and Me 00:06
But above all,
...start off by saying that I don't feel very good today. - Between the World and Me 00:05
...start off by saying that I don't feel very good toda...
I don't feel very good - Between the World and Me 00:13
I don't feel very good
♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - Between the World and Me 00:10
♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
For everybody who believes it, and can say it, - Between the World and Me 00:15
For everybody who believes it, and can say it,
(INDISTINCT CHATTER) - Between the World and Me 00:10
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Our teachers urged us towards the example of freedom marchers, - Between the World and Me 00:08
Our teachers urged us towards the example of freedom marcher...
♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪ - Between the World and Me 00:13
♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪
The firehoses that tore off their clothes - Between the World and Me 00:12
The firehoses that tore off their clothes
DAVIS: The world had no time - Between the World and Me 00:08
DAVIS: The world had no time
I sensed the schools were drugging us - Between the World and Me 00:06
I sensed the schools were drugging us
Why were only our heroes non-violent? - Between the World and Me 00:10
Why were only our heroes non-violent?
If I could've chosen a flag back then, - Between the World and Me 00:11
If I could've chosen a flag back then,
DAVIS: ...the other holding a rifle. - Between the World and Me 00:06
DAVIS: ...the other holding a rifle.
Controlled, intelligent... - Between the World and Me 00:24
Controlled, intelligent...
(CROWD AGREEING) - Between the World and Me 00:19
(CROWD AGREEING)
Nor to the insidious gravity of the streets. - Between the World and Me 00:05
Nor to the insidious gravity of the streets.
Black is beautiful, - Between the World and Me 00:44
Black is beautiful,
Perhaps, I, too, might wield the same old power - Between the World and Me 00:06
Perhaps, I, too, might wield the same old power
♪ ("REBEL WITHOUT A PAUSE" BY PUBLIC ENEMY PLAYING) ♪ - Between the World and Me 00:33
♪ ("REBEL WITHOUT A PAUSE" BY PUBLIC ENEMY PLAYING...
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪ - Between the World and Me 00:14
♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
Howard University is an institution - Between the World and Me 00:08
Howard University is an institution
The Mecca is a machine crafted to capture and concentrate - Between the World and Me 00:10
The Mecca is a machine crafted to capture and concentrate
♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - Between the World and Me 00:19
♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(CHANTING) - Between the World and Me 00:18
(CHANTING)
Out on the Yard, the communal green space - Between the World and Me 00:38
Out on the Yard, the communal green space
WATSON: The Mecca, the vastness of Black people - Between the World and Me 00:28
WATSON: The Mecca, the vastness of Black people
WATSON: I saw it in the epic sweep of the students - Between the World and Me 00:07
WATSON: I saw it in the epic sweep of the students
The students clapping, singing, stomping, chanting, stepping. - Between the World and Me 00:24
The students clapping, singing, stomping, chanting, stepping...
♪ (PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - Between the World and Me 00:04
♪ (PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(BIRDS CHIRPING) - Between the World and Me 00:10
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
by the questions that I hadn't yet understood. - Between the World and Me 00:08
by the questions that I hadn't yet understood.
The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me. - Between the World and Me 00:05
The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me.
The Black world was expanding before me, - Between the World and Me 00:09
The Black world was expanding before me,
Black people, who embody all physical varieties - Between the World and Me 00:19
Black people, who embody all physical varieties
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪ - Between the World and Me 00:18
♪ (MUSIC FADES) ♪
But once you become accustomed to the climb, your mind opens up - Between the World and Me 00:07
But once you become accustomed to the climb, your mind opens...
Howard's legacy is not wrapped up - Between the World and Me 00:10
Howard's legacy is not wrapped up
As you commence to your past, press on with pride - Between the World and Me 00:09
As you commence to your past, press on with pride
And press on with purpose - Between the World and Me 00:04
And press on with purpose
(CROWD CHEERING) - Between the World and Me 00:05
(CROWD CHEERING)
♪ (APPLAUSE FADES) ♪ - Between the World and Me 00:08
♪ (APPLAUSE FADES) ♪
MAHERSHALA ALI: My second year at Howard, uh... - Between the World and Me 00:07
MAHERSHALA ALI: My second year at Howard, uh...
A lovely girl from California, - Between the World and Me 00:12
A lovely girl from California,
I remember my ignorance. - Between the World and Me 00:11
I remember my ignorance.
(CHUCKLES) - Between the World and Me 00:17
(CHUCKLES)
In my small apartment, she kissed me - Between the World and Me 00:04
In my small apartment, she kissed me
How many awful poems did I write about her? - Between the World and Me 00:10
How many awful poems did I write about her?
She held the lineage of other worlds - Between the World and Me 00:06
She held the lineage of other worlds
I fell again, a short time later, - Between the World and Me 00:07
I fell again, a short time later,
Tall with flowing dreadlocks. - Between the World and Me 00:08
Tall with flowing dreadlocks.
All-white in Pennsylvania, - Between the World and Me 00:15
All-white in Pennsylvania,
I grew up in a house where there was-- - Between the World and Me 00:06
I grew up in a house where there was--
But this girl revealed something that love could be soft, - Between the World and Me 00:08
But this girl revealed something that love could be soft,
♪ (PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪ - Between the World and Me 00:08
♪ (PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
ALI: I fell in love at the Mecca one last time. - Between the World and Me 00:04
ALI: I fell in love at the Mecca one last time.
Lost my balance and all my boyhood - Between the World and Me 00:05
Lost my balance and all my boyhood
I stood with a blunt in one hand, - Between the World and Me 00:05
I stood with a blunt in one hand,
to the Chicago girl. - Between the World and Me 00:12
to the Chicago girl.
She brought the blunt to her plum-painted lips, pulled, - Between the World and Me 00:22
She brought the blunt to her plum-painted lips, pulled,
Wondering what it must be to embrace her, - Between the World and Me 00:10
Wondering what it must be to embrace her,
She was the kind of Black girl who'd been told as a child - Between the World and Me 00:08
She was the kind of Black girl who'd been told as a chi...
She was the kind of Black girl who'd been told as a child - Between the World and Me 00:44
She was the kind of Black girl who'd been told as a...
Told as a young woman that she was really pretty - Between the World and Me 00:05
Told as a young woman that she was really pretty
There was all about her a knowledge - Between the World and Me 00:19
There was all about her a knowledge
And dimly perceiving the great barrier - Between the World and Me 00:06
And dimly perceiving the great barrier
Nothing between us was ever planned, - Between the World and Me 00:11
Nothing between us was ever planned,
There was before you, and then there was after. - Between the World and Me 00:05
There was before you, and then there was after.
I submitted before your needs, - Between the World and Me 00:12
I submitted before your needs,
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The special will include powerful readings from Ta-Nehisi Coates' book, it will also incorporate documentary footage from the actors' home life, archival footage, and animation.

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Director: Kamilah Forbes
Writer: Ta-Nehisi Coates, David Teague, Lauren Whitehead
Production: HBO Documentary Films
Genre: documentary
Year: 2020
MetaScore: N/A/100
ImdbRating: 7.2
BoxOffice: N/A
Released: 21 Nov 2020
Awards: Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. 2 wins & 4 nominations total
Homepage: https://www.hbo.com/specials/between-the-world-and-me
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