Boiling Point
Boiling Point investigates instances of police brutality, voter suppression, school segregation, environmental racism and mass incarceration throughout American history, and the impact those injustices have had on equality.
- 2021-2021
- 1 season
- BET Networks/Viacom
- Documentary
Boiling Point investigates instances of police brutality, voter suppression, school segregation, environmental racism and mass incarceration throughout American history, and the impact those injustices have had on equality.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2021
Episode 1
L.A.
Sun, Feb 21, 2021
The 1992 L.A. riots that erupted after the officers on trial for beating Rodney King were acquitted are analyzed and compared to recent social injustices.
Episode 2
Attica
Sun, Feb 28, 2021
The roots of America's mass incarceration problem are traced back to the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, an incident authorities whitewashed and re-framed as a violent riot led by Black inmates.
Episode 3
Bloody Sunday
Tue, Mar 9, 2021
John Lewis and other civil rights activists faced down police on a Selma, AL, bridge in a violent clash that galvanized the public and led to Congress passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Episode 4
Schoolhouse Door
Tue, Mar 16, 2021
Episode 5
Hurricane Katrina
Tue, Mar 23, 2021
Episode 6
George Floyd
Tue, Mar 30, 2021