Premiering tonight on the Paramount Network and BET, Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story is the definitive look at one of the most controversial events of the last decade. Executive produced by Jay Z, the six-part docu-series recounts the life and legacy of Martin, whose untimely death became a catalyst for the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Holding its world premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, Rest in Power features interviews with Trayvon’s parents and will air for the next six weeks, culminating on Monday, September 3rd. Are you looking for a way to watch this powerful Trayvon Martin movie online? Here’s how to live stream Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story. WHAT TIME DOES REST IN POWER: THE TRAYVON MARTIN STORY BEGIN? Premiering tonight, Rest in Power begins at 10:00 p.m. Eastern. HOW CAN I FIND A REST IN POWER: THE TRAYVON MARTIN STORY LIVE STREAM? Tonight’s premiere will air on BET and the Paramount Network, which means you can find a Trayvon Martin Story live stream on Paramountnetwork.com and BET.com. You’ll need a proper cable login to access both of these websites, but both networks do offer a one-time 24-hour viewing pass for anyone who doesn’t have a valid cable login. You can also find a Rest In Power: Trayvon Martin Story live stream with a valid subscription to Philo, Sling TV, or DIRECTV NOW. More information on those options (and free trials!) below. HOW CAN I FIND A PARAMOUNT NETWORK LIVE STREAM VIA DIRECTV NOW? DIRECTV NOW is a streaming service from AT&T that you can enjoy for as little as $35 per month. Available to watch on your TV, computer, or while you’re on the go, DIRECTV NOW offers flexible packages like the “Live a Little” package — which features 65+ channels (including ESPN, BET, Paramount Network and the Discovery Channel) for $35 month — and the “Gotta Have It” package — which features 125+ channels for $70 a month. You can download the DIRECTV NOW app on iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon. Sound interesting? DIRECTV NOW is currently offering a free seven-day trial. CAN I FIND A BET LIVE STREAM VIA SLING TV? Yes! This is a terrific time to check out Sling TV. The service’s Blue package, which includes access to FOX, NBC, USA, BET, NFL Network, and more, normally costs $25 a month, but the company is currently offering subscribers a free one-week trial of the service. Then, from there, you can either download the Sling desktop app (if you’re watching on a desktop or laptop computer), or download the Sling app for iOS/Apple devices, Android, Roku, Microsoft, Nexus player, ZTE or XBox One. CAN I LIVE STREAM THE TRAYVON MARTIN STORY ON PHILO? You bet. Launching in November of 2017, Philo is a a streaming-bundle service featuring 40 channels (AMC, Discovery, BET, History, Comedy Central, Paramount Network, and TV Land just to name a few) for only $16 a month. Interested? New subscribers can sign up for a 7-day free trial. Where to stream Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story<doc-sep>BET and the Paramount network are set to air the first installment of a much-anticipated documentary about the 2012 shooting of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, an incident that sparked national conversations about racial prejudice and gun laws, and helped spur the Black Lives Matter movement. The six-part series, Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story , will begin tonight at 10 p.m. ET . The project, executive produced by Jay-Z, has been generating some early raves. The Guardian called it a “triumph,” while Entertainment Weekly dubbed it a “powerful, painful gut-punch.” If you’re a cord cutter looking to stream the documentary online, your options are somewhat limited. BET and the Paramount network are both owned by Viacom, which means you’ll have to find a TV streaming service that offers Viacom-owned channels. (For now, you won’t find them on PlayStation Vue, Hulu with Live TV, or YouTube TV.) I’ve rounded up a few of your best options below:<doc-sep>A Florida jury on July 13, 2013, acquitted neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman of fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, a hoodie-wearing unarmed black teenager, during an angry confrontation in a gated community on a rainy night. Just over five years later, the resonance from that tragedy has become deeper and more painful. . The case rocked and divided the nation, touching off a prickly debate over race, guns, so-called stand-your-ground laws and self-defense. Then-President Obama said on TV that if he had a son, “he’d look like Trayvon.” Thousands of protesters flooded the streets after the verdict acquitting Zimmerman of second-degree murder, announced after 16 hours of deliberation over the course of two days. The furor over the Martin shooting has been a fiery touchstone over the last half-decade in the wake of numerous shootings of unarmed black men by law enforcement, NFL players taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem, a deadly march in Charlottesville, Va., and racially charged comments by President Trump and other conservatives. Advertisement It is also the launch pad for a new six-part documentary, “Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story,” an extensive examination of the shooting that also places it in the context of the prickly national discourse over race. The project debuts Monday on the Paramount Network and BET. The directors of the documentary, Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason, said they wanted to expose what they called the systemic racism that contributed to the not-guilty verdict, as well as to provide an opportunity for Martin’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, to share their story on the screen for the first time. “Rest In Power” was inspired in large part by the 2017 book “Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin” by Fulton and Martin. Trayvon Martin, left, with his mother, Sybrina Fulton, and brother Jahvaris Martin. (Trayvon Martin Foundation / Paramount Network) “We have a chance to take this series and use what the country has learned from Trayvon Martin, both the positive and the negative backlash, to [understand] the Trayvon Martin to Donald Trump syndrome of America,” said Furst. While the shooting, ensuing investigation and trial serve as the heart of the series, the filmmakers spent time fleshing out a broader political spectrum that may have affected the case. “It was a turning point in the country,” Furst said. “You had the first African American president and you had some people foolishly saying that we were living in a post-racial America. And when Trayvon Martin was killed, it was an awakening for a lot of people that certain things hadn’t changed and that there was going to be far more Trayvon Martins than Barack Obamas. And that realization, that pain, that sense of injustice motivated a lot of people to act, and it changed the landscape of our country.” Added Nason, “Trayvon Martin came from a middle-class family where black and white people could identify with him. At the same time in 2012, social media was becoming a platform where young people could have a voice, they could record the injustice. So I think those two elements helped bring Trayvon Martin’s story to the forefront.” “Rest In Power” can be measured in vision and scope to the Oscar-winning “O.J: Made In America”, the 7½-hour documentary that used the murder case, trial and acquittal of the former football legend as a foundation to explore the social and political unrest of the nation. Advertisement The directors had previously teamed up on the Peabody Award-winning “Time: The Kalief Browder Story,” a documentary miniseries about the high school student, who was incarcerated for three years without being convicted for a crime. He killed himself in 2015. Furst and Nason were approached by rapper Jay Z, who had secured the rights to Fulton and Martin’s book and who wanted to executive produce an on-screen adaptation. “Jay is a very thoughtful collaborator and he understands the importance of all the legwork that goes into making a film like this,” said Furst. “We were grateful that Jay had the faith in us to hit the ground and investigate this. I think it’s a testament to his sophistication as an artist that he understands how these projects work. He’s an incredible partner, and we’re very grateful to have him onboard.” The series features never-before-seen footage and audio recordings, including court depositions of Trayvon’s family members, home videos and interviews, 911 calls and surveillance footage from Zimmerman’s arrest. Advertisement More than 100 people were interviewed, and the filmmakers employed an investigative team that included a New York Times journalist for the series. “We’re very thorough,” said Furst. “Our approach to storytelling is based on characters. In the end, people don’t learn from statistics and headlines, they learn from human connection.” They also made an attempt to interview Zimmerman, but he did not respond to their requests. Trayvon Martin’s parents — Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, center, and others take part in Trayvon Martin’s Peace Walk in Miami Gardens, Fla., on Feb. 10. (Chachi Senior / Paramount Network) For Fulton and Martin, the project was both cathartic and emotional. They wanted audiences to view them as they talked about the life and death of Trayvon Benjamin Martin, “17 years old and 21 days,” said Martin. Advertisement “It was important for us as parents to get our side of the story out,” he said in an interview. “We thought it was important that the story get told from the two people who knew Trayvon best.” Fulton called the miniseries “thought-provoking” and “real,” despite being “very hard to watch.” But the opening of the first episode shows that their pain is still very raw. Fulton is shown saying, “The life I used to have is absolutely gone. They say that time heals all wounds. It does not.” Though it’s too late to get justice for their son, Fulton and Martin now hope Trayvon’s legacy will endure despite what they see as an absence of measurable change. “You can never get redemption when you’ve suffered a loss of this magnitude,” said Martin.<doc-sep>The numbers are in for the first installment of the six-part documentary Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, which aired Monday on Paramount Network and BET. The two-net bow drew 1.2M viewers in Live+Same day Paramount Network The rating was about evenly split between the sister Viacom nets: BET drew a .39 among persons 18-49 and Paramount Network got a .31. Part 2 airs at 10 PM Monday. Produced by Shawn Carter and the Cinemart Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story that recounts the life and legacy of Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed in 2012, and whose death gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement. Trayvon Martin was an unarmed 17-year old African American high school student shot and killed by a neighborhood watch member in Sanford, FL,. where he was visiting a friend with his father. George Zimmerman was acquitted of a second-degree murder charge utilizing Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law, claiming he shot Martin in self-defense. The fatal encounter between Martin and Zimmerman and the subsequent trial polarized the nation, sparking outrage and protests and shining an unforgiving light on issues including race, politics, power, money and, gun control. Exec producers are Carter, Mike Gasparro, Jenner Furst, Julia Willoughby Nason, Nick Sandow, David C. Glasser, Chachi Senior, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin. Furst and Nason also co-directws the series.<doc-sep>
By now, the details of Trayvon Martin’s 2012 murder in Sanford, Florida are well known: the 17-year-old Trayvon was unarmed, wearing a dark gray hoodie, and carrying only a bag of Skittles when he was shot and killed in a gated community. His attacker, George Zimmerman, was a trigger-happy neighborhood watch leader with a history of run-ins with law enforcement. The case gained national attention and sparked the #BlackLivesMatter movement. After protests and public outcry, Zimmerman was eventually charged with second-degree murder. He was later acquitted, though the jury deliberated for 16 hours. Trayvon’s murder is the subject of a new docuseries, Rest In Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, premiering tonight on Paramount network and BET. The series, directed by Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason and produced by Jay-Z, doesn’t add much new information to the existing narrative. It doesn’t need to. Instead, it takes a heartbreaking, in-depth look at the shooting more than six years later—and the state of race relations in America today. Rest In Power provides powerful context for Martin’s shooting; featuring interviews with top civil rights lawyers, journalists from news outlets like Reuters and Politico, Sanford city and law enforcement officials, and Martin’s parents, the first episode aims to debunk the myth that in 2012, America was “post-racial.” The election of Barack Obama as America’s first black president may have helped fuel the assumption for some, but that ignores the intricacies of race relations across the nation and especially in southern states like Florida. It’s these intricacies that Rest in Power so deftly explores, painting a portrait of a crime that would go on to inform much of the discourse around race relations nationwide. Racist microaggressions abound in footage compiled in Rest In Power, from the Sanford police official who called Trayvon’s father Tracy with news about his son’s death and asked if she was pronouncing “Trayvon” correctly, to the Sanford P.D. public information officer who condescendingly explained to a group of enraged black citizens why they couldn’t arrest George Zimmerman. The first episode begins with a brief introduction of Martin’s childhood and background, before leading into the events of February 26, 2012. Surveillance footage, 911 calls, and stark crime scene photos do little to mask the barbarity of the shooting. Martin’s parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, nearly break down as they recall the moments when they found out their child had been murdered, and their subsequent frustration and rage at the fact that Zimmerman remained free for weeks after the crime. Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump would later take on Trayvon’s case, and his interviews in Rest In Power are riveting. Well-aware of the challenges black Americans faced in their efforts toward justice, Crump is credited by fellow attorneys and reporters alike in the series for skillfully disseminating the narrative of Trayvon, a murdered young black man, to white mainstream media. Rest In Power emphasizes the role the media played in bringing Trayvon’s murder and his family’s subsequent quest to the forefront of public consciousness, eventually leading to mass protests across the nation. But not all coverage was positive, the show is quick to point out. Many in the media used photos of Martin that reinforced stereotypical perceptions of him as a violent thug—stereotypes that worked in Zimmerman’s favor, as he claimed he shot Martin in self-defense after the unarmed teenager supposedly attacked him. Regardless, Crump’s legal ability combined with his influence—he enlisted the Reverend Al Sharpton in his quest to get the Sanford police department to release the 911 tapes from the night Trayvon was murdered—helped bring Trayvon’s case into the national spotlight, the show explains. Rest in Power is hard to watch at times, and the final part of the first episode ends with a bittersweet victory: the release of the 911 audio footage to the general public. Martin’s parents are the first to listen, and both sob when recounting their reactions to hearing their son’s last moments. It’s chilling and undeniably sad, but also gives viewers a chance to hear the brutal conclusion of an encounter that would go on to shape modern race relations in America. The series is well-aware of the context we live in now: minutes into the first episode, amidst overlapping clips of coverage of Martin’s murder, a familiar, grating voice rises above the rest: it’s Donald Trump, grimly proclaiming that the American dream is dead to thunderous applause.