RIOTSVILLE, USA is a poetic and furious reflection on the myriad rebellions of the late 1960s. Using only military and broadcast television archival footage, director Sierra Pettengill shifts our historic gaze from the rebellions themselves to footage of Army-built model towns where police and military members were trained to respond to domestic civil disorder. Amid today’s simultaneous reckonings on identity and technology companies consolidating power, Pettengill urges us to understand how the machine of American institutional authority manages to rumble on.