Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America is a 2016 American documentary film directed and produced by Matthew Ornstein.

Content 
The film follows Daryl Davis meeting members, and former members, of the Ku Klux Klan and the National Socialist Movement, and provides contrasting views of his activities from members of the Southern Poverty Law Center and Black Lives Matter.

Davis recounts befriending many klansmen and how some have left the klan.  Several, upon leaving the hate group, give him their robe. Davis estimates having collected over 25 robes.

Distribution 
The film debuted on the PBS TV series Independent Lens. The film was shown on PBS on February 13, 2017, and rerun thereafter.

Aftermath 
Frank Ancona, the Klansman depicted at the opening and close of the documentary film Accidental Courtesy, was found shot dead in Missouri on February 11, 2017, two days before the airing of the film. Ancona's wife and step-son were both charged with the murder.

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2016 documentary films
American documentary films
Neo-Nazism in the United States
Films about neo-Nazism
Films about the Ku Klux Klan
2010s English-language films
English-language documentary films