Trailer | Free Chol Soo Lee
Preview: Season 24 Episode 12 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Rollercoaster story of Chol Soo Lee, a Korean immigrant wrongfully convicted of murder.
Sentenced to life for a 1973 San Francisco murder, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was set free after a pan-Asian solidarity movement, which included Korean, Japanese, and Chinese Americans, helped to overturn his conviction. After 10 years of fighting for his life inside California state prisons, Lee found himself in a new fight to rise to the expectations of the people who believed in him.
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Trailer | Free Chol Soo Lee
Preview: Season 24 Episode 12 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Sentenced to life for a 1973 San Francisco murder, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was set free after a pan-Asian solidarity movement, which included Korean, Japanese, and Chinese Americans, helped to overturn his conviction. After 10 years of fighting for his life inside California state prisons, Lee found himself in a new fight to rise to the expectations of the people who believed in him.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪♪ Here we are ♪♪ -The Chol Soo Lee movement had a life of its own.
♪♪ Running and running an d running ♪♪ -The struggle for Chol Soo's freedom is also a struggle of an entire people.
-After all these years, I finally had the chance to say I'm innocent.
I was not an angel on the outside.
At the same time, I was not the devil.
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The Misrepresentation of Chol Soo Lee
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Was this flick a prime example of Hollywood’s White Savior Complex? (5m 34s)
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Did a song help free an incarcerated man? (4m 49s)
A Short History of Korean American Immigration
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What was that Korean-American journey like? (4m 53s)
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The unbelievable life story of Chol Soo Lee, a Korean immigrant wrongfully convicted of mu (1m)
Dinner And a Doc | Free Chol Soo Lee
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Free Chol Soo Lee co-directors share lunch with activists in L.A.'s Koreatown. (1m 50s)
Inside Look | Free Chol Soo Lee
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Get an inside look at Free Chol Soo Lee from Independent Lens. (1m 30s)
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