The Murder of Emmett Till is a 2003 documentary film produced by Firelight Media that aired on the PBS program American Experience.
The film chronicles the story of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955.
Photos of the decaying and mutilated body flooded newspapers, putting the case on the map both nationally and internationally.
The two men accused of his murder were acquitted after a short five-day trial with an all-white male jury, making a mockery of any possibility of justice.
The Emmett Till case was a significant motivator of the Civil Rights Movement, and the Montgomery bus boycott began three months after his body was discovered in the Tallahatchie River.