Silver Dollar Road, the latest documentary from Oscar nominatee Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro), sets out to make an example of the Reels’ family.  Currently residing in Adams Creek, North Carolina on valuable property sought out by developers, members of the Reels family recount the harassment and drawn out legal battle that they’ve experienced trying to keep their ownership and generational ties to their land.

Drawing comparisons to other ancestral and cultural fights over stolen land, Silver Dollar Road is stylistically conventional but, nevertheless, efficiently informative.  Peck may have actually put too much emphasis on the film’s primary family though.  The trip down the Reels’ family tree is very interesting, as is their reminiscing about the importance of their upbringing in North Carolina;  which transitions nicely to the trials and tribulations they have endured as adults to protect their home.

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