Disclosure

    Disclosure
    2020

    Synopsis

    An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.

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    Cast

    • Laverne CoxSelf - Actress
    • Bianca LeighSelf - Actress / Writer
    • Jen RichardsSelf - Actress / Writer
    • Alexandra BillingsSelf - Actress / Educator
    • Susan StrykerSelf - Historian
    • Yance FordSelf - Filmmaker
    • Lilly WachowskiSelf - Filmmaker
    • Brian Michael SmithSelf - Actor
    • Tiq MilanSelf - Media Maker / Writer
    • Nick AdamsSelf - GLAAD Director of Trans Media & Representation

    Recommendations

    • 90

      Los Angeles Times

      An engrossing, smartly contextual look at the history of transgender depictions in film and television.
    • 88

      RogerEbert.com

      This Netflix documentary will undoubtedly help more people understand how transgender people have seen themselves represented in Hollywood — it brings everyone together with its critical eye.
    • 80

      Film Threat

      Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen not only leaves us with the hope that things will improve, but it also shows us how much better the industry is when everyone is included, represented, and respected. Here’s to a brighter, more diverse future for all trans actors.
    • 80

      The New York Times

      With each successive trip to the grim vaults, the hard-won dignity of the film’s transgender speakers is brought into sharper and sharper relief.
    • 80

      Variety

      Essential, thoroughly engaging documentary.
    • 80

      Empire

      A captivating and comprehensive overview of trans representations in the media that everyone should add to their Netflix watchlist.
    • 75

      San Francisco Chronicle

      Portrayals of transgender people in movies and television are a vast and complex subject, but Netflix’s new documentary Disclosure does an admirable job of covering many issues and contradictions a century of mostly insensitive screen depictions have raised.
    • 75

      IndieWire

      Perhaps what is most radical about Disclosure is the wide array of trans spirits both onscreen and off. In making the film, Feder and Cox are rewriting the very history they set out to tell, adding one more title to “positive representation” list. That alone is worth coming out for.