Strong Island

Strong Island is a documentary about the death of William Ford Jr., who was shot and killed in 1992 at the age of twenty-four in a garage in Long Island, New York. The film was made by his brother, director Yance Ford, and it examines both the killing and the court proceedings that followed. A jury declined to convict the shooter; the film looks at the investigation, the way the case was handled and the racial assumptions that shaped how the victim's life was valued. Yance Ford grew up with his brother and sister in a suburban community where the family looked after one another, in a setting affected by the racism of white neighbours.

Strong Island is the first of the two features Yance Ford has directed, followed by Power in 2024. He appears in the film as himself, alongside family members including Barbara Dunmore Ford and Lauren Ford, and other participants such as Harvey Walker, Kevin Myers and David Breen. It is a production involving companies in Denmark and the United States.

On IMDb the film holds a rating of 6.4 from roughly 4,300 votes, while on TMDB it has a rating of 6.3 from about 101 votes. A film critics' rating of 8.5 from 47 reviews places it noticeably higher than those audience scores, suggesting that critics responded to it more strongly than general viewers did.