We all watched news about the US elections in 2020, along with the havoc that Coronavirus spread. Much like India, the United States fell apart in many ways in 
the past year. And so, when a documentary called The Reunited States comes by, which is planning its Indian foray soon on an OTT platform, you sit up and wonder what they are going to say. 

The subject of director Ben Rekhi and producer Raj Krishna’s documentary is political polarisation. It follows four everyday heroes on the difficult journey of bridging political and racial divides in the US. There is Susan Bro, whose daughter was killed when a car drove through a crowd of counter-protestors in Charlottesville, and who talks of social justice; there is politician Greg Orman who wants to break the gridlock of the two-party system; Steven Olikara, the son of Indian immigrants from Kerala, who has founded the Millennial Action Project that tries to build a coalition of bi-partisan lawmakers to transform the American government; and David Leaverton, who worked in Republican politics and now travels across all 50 states in an RV to find out what is causing the divisions.