A look at Oakland amid the tumult of the last few years. Year 2017 Video Release 2017-12-12 Studio Kino Lorber Genre Documentary MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Runtime 92 Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis Sprawling, immediate, and complex, Peter Nicks's verite documentary moves like a pulsing, timely thriller. In 2014, after over a decade of federal monitoring for misconduct and civil rights abuses, the Oakland Police Department hires Chief Sean Whent ... in hopes of bridging an historically tense divide between its officers and the community they serve. The Force captures everything; it hovers over Oakland's evening skies and rides inside speeding police vehicles, granting viewers breathless firsthand access to some of law enforcement's most dangerous jobs. With fly-on-the-wall intimacy, we see a department trapped in transition, desperate to shed its corrupt image but also challenged by an increasingly organized and urgent Black Lives Matter movement erupting right outside its doorstep. Harry Vaughn, Sundance Film Festival Director Peter Nicks Cast Peter Nicks