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Bisbee '17 An eye-opening, powerful, heartbreaking, poignant, 112-minute documentary the showcases the townsfolk (Mike Anderson, James West, Chris Dietz, Fernando Serrano, Benjamin Joel Caron, Dick and Doug Graeme, Charles Bethea, Ken Boe, et al.) of Bisbee, Ariz., which is just 7 miles from the Mexican border, who faithfully recreate on the centennial anniversary what is known as the Bisbee Deportation where a deputized, 2,000-man posse lead by Sheriff Harvey Wheeler illegally rounded up 1,200 immigrant I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World) striking miners (aka the Wobblies) at the Copper Queen Mine on July 12, 1917, forced them into cattle cars, and left them to die in a desert in New Mexico.
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