POV Season 32

Trailer | 07/15/2019 | 3 Mins

Radically combining documentary and narrative elements, Bisbee '17 follows several members of the close-knit community in Bisbee, Arizona, a former mining town, as they commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bisbee Deportation, when 1,200 immigrant miners were violently taken from their homes by a deputized force, shipped to the desert on cattle cars and left to die. Official Selection, 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

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Bisbee '17

Feature Film

Official Trailer | Bisbee '17

Trailer

Behind The Lens | Bisbee '17

Interview

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Lesson plan Collaborating with History: Re-examining the Past through Research and Reenactment
Discussion guide Bisbee ’17: Discussion Guide
Reading list Bisbee ’17 Delve Deeper Reading List

Film Credits —

Douglas Tirola Producer
Robert Greene Director

Critical Acclaim —

“One of the pleasurable discoveries of this continually surprising movie is that artifice can be the most direct route to the truth.”

— Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times