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Steve McQueen on ‘Uprising,’ His Docuseries Companion to ‘Small Axe,’ and the Power of Music
Selome Hailu editorDirector Steve McQueen has followed up on “Small Axe,” last year’s narrative anthology series about West Indian immigrants in London, with another series about Black British history: “Uprising,” a three-part documentary series about three related events in 1981 — the New Cross house fire, Black People’s Day of Action and the Brixton riots.The series, which he co-directed with James Rogan, is now streaming on Amazon Prime, along with two companion documentaries that McQueen executive produced: “Black Power: A British Story of Resistance” and “Subnormal: A British Scandal,” the latter about British education of Black children.The first episode of “Uprising,” “Fire,” begins with interviews of people present at the party