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Bisbee 17 (2018)
Format: Blu-ray Genre: Special Interest-Documentary
Bisbee 17

Bisbee 17

(2018)
Format: Blu-ray Genre: Special Interest-Documentary
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Radically combining collaborative documentary, western, and musical elements, the new film by Robert Greene (KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE) follows several members of a close-knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town s darkest hour. In 1917, nearly two-thousand immigrant miners, on strike for better wages and safer working conditions, were violently rounded up by their armed neighbors, herded onto cattle cars, shipped to the middle of the New Mexican desert, and left there to die. This long-buried and largely forgotten event came to be known as the Bisbee Deportation. BISBEE 17 documents locals as they play characters and stage dramatic scenes from the controversial story, culminating in a large scale recreation of the deportation itself on the exact day of it's 100th anniversary. These dramatized scenes are based on subjective versions of the story and offer conflicting views of the event, underscoring the difficulty of collective memory, while confronting the current political predicaments of immigration, unionization, environmental damage, and corporate corruption with direct, haunting messages about solidarity and struggle.
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Robert Greene
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Robert Greene
Director: Robert Greene
Studio: Grasshopper Film
Release Date: 5/28/2019
Item #: 2148016X
UPC #: 853294007312
Attributes: Deluxe Edition, Bonus Material
Product Type: Blu-ray
Rating: NR

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