2 Fists Up (2016)

When University of Missouri football players threatened to boycott their game with Brigham Young University last November unless president Tim Wolfe resigned they made news far beyond the sports pages and Columbia Missouri But that was only one chapter in a tale that began long before that a tale that director Spike Lee unspools in this Lil Joints documentary for ESPN Films Yes the athletes played a significant role in forcing Wolfes resignation but it was really the female organizers of the Concerned Student 1950 movement as well as a man Jonathan Butler willing to starve himself who stood tallest in the confrontation with institutional racism at Mizzou Indeed their courage and resolve brings hope to the message chanted at the end of the film We gonna be all right