Reviews: Trilogy of Shame (AKA Jane Roe, On The Record, Filthy Rich)

The horror of 100,000 American dead (and counting) from the Novel Coronavirus and the grotesquerie of watching a man murdered before our eyes by a white policeman applying the pressure of body weight and a knee to the neck of an already under control black man will certainly bring us a wave of documentaries to sadden the soul in the years to come.

But on this very week, there are 3 new documentaries that speak to the plight of young women in our nation through the last six decades. They couldn't be much more different in style or substance. But each packs a punch that cannot be denied and should not be avoided.

The story that has the earliest origin is AKA Jane Roe (FX/Hulu), which is both a history of Norma McCorvey's life, her struggles as the famous Jane Roe in the Roe v Wade case, her late conversion to born again Christianity, and her confession of intentionally misleading others in the final days of her life.

Nick Sweeney is a relatively new documentarian, the first of his 5 films …