White with Fear

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White with Fear

2024,

1h 26m,

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Told by the operatives in the rooms where it happened, White with Fear is an explosive deep dive into the decades-long quest by America's conservative political machine to amass power by exploiting racial fault lines and stoking narratives of White victimization.

Kat Sachs

Chicago Reader

May 22, 2025

Clear-sighted and well-organized, Andrew Goldberg’s probe into the arson job that is America’s current political system examines the flames that stoked the fire.

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Cortlyn Kelly

RogerEbert.com

May 21, 2025

2/4

Goldberg acknowledges that the film’s power is in its exclusive cast sharing their personal experiences. But his film fails to realize that it, too, is a player in platforming an already undefeated beast.

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Beandrea July

FilmWeek (LAist)

May 7, 2026

A very interesting look at how dog-whistle politics came to dominate the Republican Party.

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Jana Monji

Age of the Geek

Apr 12, 2026

4/5

While I'm glad this documentary includes an Asian American point of view, there are minor problems and due to the political atmosphere, it is already outdated. This is worth seeing and hopefully a sequel is in the works.

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Alise Chaffins

MacGuffin or Meaning (Substack)

Mar 23, 2026

3.5/5

Goldberg interviews countless politicians, political strategists, and newspeople...to show how the strategy of stirring up racial fear has been used to divide and conquer for decades in an effective and chilling story of political manipulation.

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Christopher Campbell

Nonfics (Substack)

Mar 23, 2026

Plays like a fire alarm pulled after the building has already burned down. It’s not up to date. Its thesis and arguments are easy and obvious. And the film fails to get that today, the real issue is the Americans being led, not the pipers leading them.

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Told by the operatives in the rooms where it happened, White with Fear is an explosive deep dive into the decades-long quest by America's conservative political machine to amass power by exploiting racial fault lines and stoking narratives of White victimization.

Director: Andrew Goldberg
Producer: Diana Robinson, Andrew Goldberg
Screenwriter: Andrew Goldberg
Distributor: Area 23a
Production Co: So Much Film
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 25, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 3, 2025
Runtime: 1h 26m

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