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KKK: The Fight for White Supremacy

Documentary investigating the Ku Klux Klan. Film-maker Dan Murdoch witnesses first-hand their secretive rituals and hears why their members choose to wear the infamous hood.

America's most infamous supremacist group - the Ku Klux Klan - says they are in the midst of a revival, with a surge in membership and cross burnings across the Deep South.

Film-maker Dan Murdoch meets the leaders of the Loyal White Knights, who claim to be the largest Klan chapter, to witness first-hand their secretive rituals and hear about why their members choose to wear the infamous hood.

The Klan says they are not violent. But when a 21-year-old white man walks into a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and massacres nine black worshippers saying he wants to start a race war, the danger of the white supremacist ideology becomes a terrifying reality.

The film follows events as protests erupt and Black Power groups, including the New Black Panthers, take to the streets to preach their own agenda of black supremacy. And when the Ku Klux Klan and the New Black Panthers organise rival protests in the South Carolina capital, the two extreme visions of America violently come face to face.

58 minutes

Last on

Wed 29 Aug 201800:45

Credits

RoleContributor
DirectorDan Murdoch
ProducerSarah Foudy
Executive ProducerSarah Waldron

Broadcasts

  • Mon 28 Sep 201521:00
  • Tue 29 Sep 201500:30
  • Tue 29 Sep 201502:55
  • Wed 30 Sep 201501:30
  • Mon 5 Oct 201501:00
  • Mon 12 Oct 201502:10
  • Tue 20 Oct 201522:40
  • Tue 20 Oct 201523:10
  • Tue 20 Oct 201523:40
  • Mon 18 Jan 201621:00
  • Tue 19 Jan 201601:00
  • Wed 20 Jan 201601:45
  • Tue 19 Dec 201723:45
  • Wed 20 Dec 201700:10
  • Wed 20 Dec 201700:35
  • Wed 20 Dec 201700:45
  • Tue 28 Aug 201823:45
  • Wed 29 Aug 201800:10
  • Wed 29 Aug 201800:45

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