Hannah Ayers and Lance Warren, directors (Field Studio, in association with Virginia Public Media, 2021)

Taking the confederate statues erected on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia and their removal as its subject, How the Monuments Came Down shows how these statues shored up white supremacy and how Black people contested those regimes over almost 160 years. This story emerges compellingly through the voices of historians, activists, descendants and community members. Rather than a triumphant narrative of justice achieved the film proposes that the project of racial liberation is an ongoing, unfinished project.