Banished
Director: Marco Williams

2007 Sundance Film Festival
2007 Human Rights Watch Film Festival

"In Banished, Marco Williams investigates, with even-handed and nuanced precision, the shameful and suppressed history of white communities banishing African-Americans from their homes between the end of the Civil War and the 1920s. Exposing a Gordian knot of racial injustice, Banished shows the descendants of the dispossessed as they wrestle with themselves and with those who now inhabit their ancestral property over questions of collective memory, statutes of limitations, and reparations."—Lisa Katzman, The Villiage Voice