Errol Morris confronts one of the most divisive chapters in recent American history: family separations. Based on NBC Political and National Correspondent Jacob Soboroff’s book, Morris merges explosive interviews with whistleblowing officials and artful narrative vignettes tracing one migrant family’s plight. Together, they reveal that the cruelty at the heart of this policy was its very purpose. Against this backdrop — with hundreds of families still separated years later — audiences can begin to grasp the US government’s role in this unthinkable horror and be warned that we are on the verge of allowing it to happen again.
DIRECTOR: Errol Morris
PRODUCED BY: Errol Morris, Robert Fernandez, Molly O’Brien, Steven Hathaway
An NBC News Studios, Participant Media, Fourth Floor, and Moxie Pictures Production
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Liz Cole, Noah Oppenheim, Elizabeth Fischer, Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Jacob Soboroff
DISTRIBUTOR: MSNBC FILMS
