This Sundance 2018 favourite chronicles the quirky town of Bisbee, Arizona, just down the road from Tombstone and the Mexican border. Once home to one of the largest copper mines in America, it was relegated to near ghost town status with the inevitable mine closing in the 1970s. Today celebrated as a community of harmless eccentrics, Bisbee was the site of a notorious and brutal tragedy in 1917, when 1,200 striking mine workers were violently rounded up from their homes and streets. Targeted for their pro-union sympathies, the mostly immigrant workers were forced at gunpoint onto cattle cars and deposited in the middle of the New Mexican desert to die. Award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene pushes the boundaries of traditional non-fiction storytelling as he and the townsfolk recreate and dramatize the infamous events of 1917. Their often hilarious efforts attempt to better understand this mostly whitewashed event and the role it played in shaping the consciousness of their past and present. Chris McDonald