A vital film full of creativity and contradictions, BISBEE captures an US town's reconciliation with its dark history of ethnic cleansing and union busting.

Synopsis

An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past

Radically combining documentary and genre elements, the film follows several members of the close knit community as they collaborate with the filmmakers to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bisbee Deportation, where 1200 immigrant miners were violently taken from their homes by a deputized force, shipped to the desert on cattle cars and left to die.

As we meet the townspeople, they begin to confront the violent past of the Deportation, a long-buried secret in the old company town.