A24’s Doc ‘The Sixth,’ About the Terror of Jan. 6, Is Essential Viewing. So Why Are the Directors Struggling to Get It Seen?
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Donald Trump recently announced that he will hold an “awards gala” celebrating the Jan.
6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol — just the latest example of the ongoing revisionist history and whitewashing of the extreme violence that took place that day.
The A24 film “The Sixth,” however, documents via horrific footage what actually happened, and how it was ultimately Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department that saved the government from being toppled by a massive, deadly mob when the National Guard, stationed just miles away, didn’t show up.Filmmakers Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine had a camera crew at Trump’s D.C.
rally on Jan. 6 (which was timed to the certification by Congress of Joe Biden as president), and some of what they captured appears in “The Sixth.” But much of the doc was stitched together from cameras and other videographers who were in and around the Capitol. (The duo says they didn’t pay for any footage from actual insurrectionists, however).
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