A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
OUR
WICKED
CITY
THE FUTURE OF ONE TOWN
DEPENDS ON ITS BURIED PAST
In a small Alabama town once known as the "Wickedest City in America," a new generation examines what hidden history leaves behind, and what it asks of those who inherit it.
Image Courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Alabama Media Group CollectionFilm Summary
OUR WICKED CITY is a character-driven film set in Phenix City, Alabama, a town at a cultural and economic crossroads. The film contrasts the town’s contemporary ambition to rebrand itself as “Positively Phenix City,” with the sordid reputation still lingering from its past as the once “Wickedest City in America.” The film focuses on collective memory and explores how this community remembers and reinvestigates its past.
