Bisbee ’17 — 2018 Sundance Film Festival; supported by Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program and Producers Program

In the early hours of July 12, 1917, some 2,000 striking miners living in the town of Bisbee, Arizona, were rounded up by a posse deputized by the county sheriff and Phelps Dodge mining corporation. After refusing to denounce unionization, 1,200 of the kidnapped miners were shoved into cattle cars and taken across the border to New Mexico, where they were left without money, food, or water and threatened with death if they ever returned to Bisbee. A century later, the townspeople of Bisbee are staging a reenactment of this haunting event based on personal accounts from the time. Director Robert Greene captures the reenactment and conflicting beliefs of the participants in an unsettling portrait of a country that continues to be violently divided on issues of immigration, unionization, and corporate greed. Check here for viewing options.