New Trailer For Steve McQueen’s Small Axe, A Collection Of Five Films

Amazon Prime Video has released the new trailer for Small Axe, the upcoming anthology series from Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen (Hunger, 12 Years a Slave).

Small Axe is an anthology comprised of five original films set from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s that tell different stories involving London’s West Indian community, whose lives have been shaped by their own force of will despite rampant racism and discrimination

This title is derived from the African proverb, “If you are the big tree, we are the small axe.” The five films featured are Mangrove, Lovers Rock, Alex Wheatle, Education and Red, White and Blue.

Mangrove and Lovers Rock were included in the Cannes 2020 Official Selection, while Mangrove, Lovers Rock, and Red, White, and Blue will premiere during this year’s 58th New York Film Festival.

Small Axe is produced by Turbine Studios and Steve McQueen’s Lammas Park for BBC One, with Amazon Studios co-producing in the US. It will premiere on Amazon Prime Video in the US later this year. The series is distributed internationally by BBC Studios.