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P.O.V.'s Season Continues with Street Fight

Fresh from winning awards at the SilverDocs, HotDocs and Tribeca film festivals, "Street Fight" is this year's political thriller.
The film covers the turbulent campaign of Cory Booker, a 32-year old Rhodes Scholar Yale Law graduate running for mayor of Newark, N.J. against Sharpe James, the four-term incumbent twice his age. An urban David and Goliath story, the film chronicles the young man's struggle against the city's entrenched political machine, which routinely uses strong-arm tactics to hold onto power. The battle sheds light on important questions about democracy, power, poverty and race. When the mayor accuses the Ivy League-educated challenger of not being "really black," the campaign forces voters to examine how we define race in America. A co-presentation with the Independent Television Service (ITVS).

Visit the companion website at http://www.pbs.org/pov/streetfight for trailers, a film synopsis, interviews with the filmmakers, and special features