Flag Wars (2003)
On the Front Lines of Gentrification, There's No Place Like Home.
Filmed over four years, this documentary focuses on the impacts of gentrification as gay white professionals move into a largely black working-class neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio.
- Date of release
- 2003-05-01
- TMDB
- 4.5 / 10 (10)
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Linda Goode Bryant, Laura Poitras
Casting
- Nina Masseria — Self
- Chief Baba Olugbala Shango Obadena — Self
- Richard C. Pfeiffer, Jr. — Self
- Linda Mitchell — Self
- Jim Yoder — Seld
Interesting facts
Flag Wars is a 2003 American documentary film about the conflict between two communities during the gentrification of a Columbus, Ohio neighborhood. Filmed in a cinéma vérité style, the film is an account of the tension between the two historically oppressed communities of African Americans and gays in Columbus' Olde Towne East neighborhood. The film was nominated for an Emmy Award and won three awards, including a Peabody Award.
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