Originally produced as a documentary film in 2005.

Special features: optional audio commentary by Beauchamp; "The impact of the Emmett Louis Till case in American history and today" (a panel discussion organized by The Harvard Civil Rights Project, moderated by Andrew Grant-Thomas, with Jenny Lopez, Prof. Charles Ogletree, Prof. Gary Orfield, 26 min.); theatrical trailer.

Camera, Rondrick Cowins, Scott Marshall, Sikay Tang ; edited by David Dessel ; original score by Jim Papoulis.

The film that helped reopen one of history's most notorious cold case civil rights murders is the result of the director's 10-year journey to uncover the truth. In August, 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley of Chicago sent her only child, Emmett Louis Till, to visit relatives in the Mississippi Delta. Little did she know that only 8 days later, Emmett would be abducted from his Great-Uncle's home, brutally beaten and murdered for one of the oldest Southern taboos : whistling at a white woman in public. It was Beauchamp's nine years of investigation, summarized in the film, that was primarily responsible for the Justice Department reopening the case.

MPAA Rating: PG.

DVD, region 1; Dolby digital stereo.

In English; closed-captioned.