Backlash: The Murder of George Floyd vs Never Be A Punching Bag For Nobody
Never Be A Punching Bag For Nobody is the shorter watch at 1h 5m compared with 1h 29m. Never Be A Punching Bag For Nobody is the older of the two (2023 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Backlash: The Murder of George Floyd
Never Be A Punching Bag For Nobody| Backlash: The Murder of George Floyd | Never Be A Punching Bag For Nobody | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 0.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2023 |
| Length | 1h 29m | 1h 5m |
| Genres | Crime, Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | United Kingdom | – |
| Director | Kwabena Oppong | Naomi Yang |
| Main cast | – | Naomi Yang, Sal Bartolo Jr., Mary Ellen Welch, Larry Venezia, Carlo Rotella |
Synopsis
Backlash: The Murder of George Floyd
Five years since the murder of George Floyd – the police killing that set America on fire with rage and sparked a wave of protests around the world, director Kwabena Oppong's film explores one of the most important and defining events in modern history. Featuring ground-breaking interviews with members of George Floyd’s family, the Minneapolis Police Chief who took the bold step of testifying against one of his own officers, Boris Johnson’s…
Never Be A Punching Bag For Nobody
The film weaves together three stories: colorful boxing coach and ex-drill sergeant Sal Bartolo Jr., son of a renowned 1940s East Boston boxing champ; Naomi Yang herself, learning boxing from trainer Bartolo and reexamining some of her own family’s disturbing history; and schoolteacher Mary Ellen Welch, who in the 1960s mobilized a group of neighborhood women against encroachment from Logan airport, fighting back against an indifferent city…
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