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Men with Guns & Lone Star

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This book includes two scripts from independent filmmaker John Sayles: 'Lone Star' (1996)--considered by many to be his masterpiece--and 'Men With Guns' (1997), which was shot entirely in Spanish (though the screenplay included here is in English). Like Sayles, the scripts are intelligent--specially Lone Star. It's a story set in a fictional Tex-Mex border town, where the discovery of a skeleton at a former rifle-range unearths the town's long-buried secrets, while also serving as an expose on the diverse ethnic perspectives that make up its present day population. Unlike many stereotypical 'Southern' films that think no other race other than Whites need be focused, 'Lone Star' dwells deeply into the mixed racial build-up of a modern day Texas border town: there's well developed characters that are African (who are revealed to have descended from ancient Seminole Indian Tribes in Florida); Hispanic characters perilously crossing the Rio Grande to sneak into the 'country' that was once theirs; and even a Anglo Sheriff who must push past the Confederate-flag-waving Alamo mentality of Texas just to find the truth about his father. It's almost like a sober history lesson, after years of watching patriotic John Wayne/Ford 'cowboy' films that have brainwashed American society for so long. It's like Sayles himself says in the introduction: the laughable irony that a few 'brave ones' held out at the Alamo against Mexican invaders for 13 days....for the 'freedom' to own a couple slaves to continue their cotton revenue.
You want to get to the truth, like the protagonists in both these films, do yourself a favor and watch 'em already if you haven't.