Dir. Dawn Porter | Documentary | U.S.A. | 2026 | 1 hr. 52 min.

Followed by a discussion with director and producer Dawn Porter and film subjects Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins, and Andrew Stewart; educator and youth advocate Dhakir Warren will moderate

In 1983, the murder of a 14-year-old boy, inside a Baltimore middle school, led to one of the city’s most notorious miscarriages of justice: three Black teenagers were wrongfully convicted, largely on coerced testimony, and spent 36 years in prison. In this compelling new documentary from director Dawn Porter (Luther: Never Too Much), author Ta-Nehisi Coates revisits the case, returning to his hometown to uncover the human cost of this injustice and examine how media, policing, and systemic bias shaped the lives of the accused, the witnesses, and the community. Following the teens’ journey from adolescence to decades of incarceration, and finally to exoneration, this film is a searing exploration of truth, accountability, and narrative’s enduring power both to destroy and to heal.