Bisbee '17

POV Season 32
  • Feature Film
  • 2019
  • 120 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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Film Credits

  • Douglas Tirola Producer
  • Robert Greene Director