page_title: Bisbee '17
section_title: Synopsis
hierarchical_section_title: Bisbee '17 / Synopsis
caption_attribution_description: English: Panorama of Bisbee, Arizona, 1916
context_page_description: Bisbee '17 is a 2018 film directed by Robert Greene. Partially documentary and partially based on a true story Western, it reflects on the events of the 1917 Bisbee Deportation, 100 years later; it is set in Bisbee, Arizona, both in 1917 and 2017.
context_section_description: Five years after its statehood and a few months after the United States' entry into World War I, xenophobia and anti-unionism is growing in the Southernmost towns of Arizona near the Mexican border. In Bisbee, immigrant workers organized and were violently rounded up and transported to the desert in New Mexico; not as famous as the events in nearby Tombstone, the deportation didn't live in the national memory, but is quietly remembered by the townsfolk today. And so at the 100 year anniversary, Bisbee citizens organized a re-enactment. The events unfold again, as if they were happening in 1917, framed alongside interviews with the present day locals.
caption: Panoramic view of Bisbee, Arizona, in 1916, shortly before the Bisbee Deportation
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