Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Genius Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: May 2, 2006
• Run Time: 69 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000F8DV6C
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #69,118 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Cochise County Arizona resident Mercedes Maharis directs this documentary about a community living in the crosshairs of an ongoing immigration battle. As Americans react with growing alarm to a porous southern border Maharis asks residents to comment on their experience living in a contested zone. Features footage of border crossings and interviews with Border Patrol officials civil rights activists and immigrants.System Requirements:Running Time: 69 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 796019785396 Manufacturer No: 78539

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy it! Watch it! Share it with friends., May 23, 2006

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Milo S. "Milo S." (Chico, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cochise County USA - Cries from the Border (2005) (DVD)

I just got this viedo today and was amazed by this documentary. This is the story that's not being told in the mass media. This is the story of the people who live by the border and see what is happening. This is the story that the rest of America needs to see and hear.

32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cries From the Border, May 13, 2006

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John F. Petrello III "Omerta" (AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cochise County USA - Cries from the Border (2005) (DVD)

The single most decent thing about this documentary is that it is neither left nor right. Mercedes takes an honest look at what people in the United States are living with daily and does it in an interesting way. From the violence of break ins to the drug runners, this is an honest view from a great film maker. Missing is the usual racist slant many open border folks seem to chant.
Thank you Mercedes for a fine movie and finally showing the truth about how we Cochise County citizens truly live.

John F Petrello III
Whetstone Arizona

34 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding and Depressing, May 29, 2006

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maskirovka (Alexandria, Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cochise County USA - Cries from the Border (2005) (DVD)

I just watched "Cries from the Border" yesterday. I think that anyone who is interested in the issue of border security must watch it. I wish I could make George W. Bush, Ted Kennedy, and John McCain, the leading advocates of the "path to citizenship" (i.e. amnesty for illegal aliens), watch the film. Because if they did watch and didn't just reject it as propaganda, they might realize that whatever the US might do with the 12 million illegal aliens wandering the US, we have to restore control of our nation's southern border.

Something tells me that if Bush's ranch in Crawford, the Kennedy compound in Massachusetts, or wherever McCain considers home in Arizona were transit points for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens sneaking into the USA, those worthy gentlemen wouldn't be so eager to enact legislation that will inevitably lead to millions more flooding across our borders in years to come.

This film really shows the cost of illegal immigration: the cost of the social services that illegals get, the assaults on US Border Patrol Officers (the film shows clips of Mexicans hurling rocks at them), the lonely deaths of illegals in the desert, and the trash strewn across what used to be beautiful landscapes.

I felt sad also because I used to live in Cochise County. I was twice stationed at Fort Huachuca when I was in the Army. I used to think that I might retire down there. But I know now that I never will. I could never put up with what American citizens have to put up with down there.

I can only hope that come November, the Republicans lose the House and maybe some Senate seats as well over this issue. Maybe then, the Republicans (I have no hopes for the Democrats on this) will wake up and sense the mood of the nation which is BORDER SECURITY FIRST!