• Director(s)

    Tim Mackenzie-Smith

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    90m

  • Cast

    Patrick Patterson, Steve Scipio, Derrick Gibbs

Film

Getting it Back: the Story of Cymande

racism, real violence

GETTING IT BACK: THE STORY OF CYMANDE is a British music documentary charting the career of influential 70s funk band Cymande amidst the social unrest of the period, as well as their more recent reappraisal and reformation.…

GETTING IT BACK: THE STORY OF CYMANDE is a British music documentary charting the career of influential 70s funk band Cymande amidst the social unrest of the period, as well as their more recent reappraisal and reformation.

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violence
There is footage or real violence in the form of racially motivated rioting and clashes with police at protest events; these include people being grabbed and restrained by police, cars burning and molotov cocktails being thrown. We also see police officers swinging batons at people, though impacts are largely hidden from sight.
discrimination
Archive news footage from the 1950s, 60s and 70s shows images of racist graffiti as well as a man ranting aggressively at the camera in a racist manner; these include spoken and written uses of the racist term 'n****r'. Other footage features people displaying dated racist attitudes toward non-white immigrants; a UK white nationalist march and a man expressing white nationalist political views; and racially motivated protests and rioting in the US and UK. A black man remembers being subjected to racism growing up in Britain. There are verbal references to historic institutional racism in the police and the difficulty experienced by black music artists to appear on British television in the 1970s. All racist attitudes are implicitly condemned by the film.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
additional issues
There is mild bad language ('shit', 'crap', 'bloody') as well as milder terms which include 'freaking' and 'damn'. There is a fleeting, undetailed verbal reference to drugs.

  • Director(s)

    Tim Mackenzie-Smith

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    90m

  • Cast

    Patrick Patterson, Steve Scipio, Derrick Gibbs

racism, real violence
Classified Date:
09/01/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
BFI Films
violence
There is footage or real violence in the form of racially motivated rioting and clashes with police at protest events; these include people being grabbed and restrained by police, cars burning and molotov cocktails being thrown. We also see police officers swinging batons at people, though impacts are largely hidden from sight.
language
There is mild bad language (for example, 'shit', 'bloody', 'freakin', 'crap'), as well as milder terms ('damn', 'God').
discrimination
Archive news footage from the 1950s, 60s and 70s shows images of racist graffiti as well as a man ranting aggressively at the camera in a racist manner; these include spoken and written uses of the racist term 'n****r'. Other footage features people displaying dated racist attitudes toward non-white immigrants; a UK white nationalist march and a man expressing white nationalist political views; and racially motivated protests and rioting in the US and UK. A black man remembers being subjected to racism growing up in Britain. There are verbal references to historic institutional racism in the police and the difficulty experienced by black music artists to appear on British television in the 1970s. All racist attitudes are implicitly condemned by the film.
drugs
There is a brief verbal drug reference.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
additional issues
There is mild bad language ('shit', 'crap', 'bloody') as well as milder terms which include 'freaking' and 'damn'. There is a fleeting, undetailed verbal reference to drugs.
racism, real violence
Classified Date:
09/01/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
BFI Video
violence
There is footage or real violence in the form of racially motivated rioting and clashes with police at protest events; these include people being grabbed and restrained by police, cars burning and molotov cocktails being thrown. We also see police officers swinging batons at people, though impacts are largely hidden from sight.
discrimination
Archive news footage from the 1950s, 60s and 70s shows images of racist graffiti as well as a man ranting aggressively at the camera in a racist manner; these include spoken and written uses of the racist term 'n****r'. Other footage features people displaying dated racist attitudes toward non-white immigrants; a UK white nationalist march and a man expressing white nationalist political views; and racially motivated protests and rioting in the US and UK. A black man remembers being subjected to racism growing up in Britain. There are verbal references to historic institutional racism in the police and the difficulty experienced by black music artists to appear on British television in the 1970s. All racist attitudes are implicitly condemned by the film.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
additional issues
There is mild bad language ('shit', 'crap', 'bloody') as well as milder terms which include 'freaking' and 'damn'. There is a fleeting, undetailed verbal reference to drugs.
Classified Date:
04/01/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
BFI Films

  • Classified date

    09/01/2024

  • Language

    English