Tongues Untied
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| Directed by | Marlon T. Riggs |
| Produced by | Marlon T. Riggs |
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Running time | 55 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Tongues Untied is a 1989 American video essay experimental documentary film directed by Marlon T. Riggs, and featuring Riggs, Essex Hemphill, Brian Freeman. and more. The film seeks, in its author's words to, "...shatter the nation's brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference."
In 2022, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".