Community Event
Bisbee ’17 Watch Party.
POV and Arizona Public Media hosted a watch party for the national PBS broadcast of the critically-acclaimed film Bisbee ’17 at the Bisbee Royale on July 15.
Radically combining documentary and scripted elements, the film follows several members of the close-knit community in Bisbee, Arizona, a former mining town, as they commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bisbee Deportation, when 1,200 immigrant miners were violently taken from their homes by a deputized force, shipped to the desert on cattle cars, and left to die.