When Ezra Edelman set out to make the documentary O.J.: Made in America, he had one goal: To make a five-hour movie about howthe 1995 O.J. Simpson murder case a flashpoint for talking about race and the American criminal justice system. Not only didhe hit his goal, but he overshot that runtime by about three hours. “No sane person would do this,” Edelman says now, sitting in a lounge in New York’s Post Factory, where his doc was edited.

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