Product Details

• Directors: Dana Nachman, Don Hardy
• Producers: Dana Nachman, Don Hardy, Sean Penn
• Format: Color
• Region: All Regions
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0026A311M
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #69,876 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Executive produced and narrated by Sean Penn, this award winning documentary chronicles a miscarriage of justice where a dozen people were falsely convicted of crimes committed against their own children and the long, legal process to exonerate them two decades after their incarceration.

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Riviting!, April 19, 2009

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C. Molen "for accountability" (Star, Idaho) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Witch Hunt DVD (DVD)

Witch Hunt should be required reading for all Attorney Generals, Prosecutors, Police Officers, Child Protective Services and anyone affiliated with CPS. The events related in this documentary are eerily similar to what the legal community perpetrated on my husband who was falsely accused and wrongly convicted of the same type of crime. He is currently serving a 20 year sentence for a crime he did not conmmit..the same type of crime the men and women featured in Witch Hunt were charged with. I will be purchasing as many copies of Witch Hunt as I can afford to send the Deputy Attorney General who prosecuted my husband with no evidence, the police officer who "lost" evidence, the hospital case worker who did not follow protocol in interviewing the very confused child, the nurse who falsified her report and withheld evidence, the jurors who convicted on emotion and ignorance and the judge who made erroneous rulings in an effort to remain politically correct. I will use Witch Hunt in an effort to educate... in an effort to prevent such miscarriages of justice that befell the persons in this documentary, in an effort to bring attention to the plight of my husband and hundreds of others who are still behind prison walls waiting for someone to listen, to care and to help.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Less heart, more logic required., June 15, 2009

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Royster "Royster" (the East) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Witch Hunt DVD (DVD)

Like the McMartin Trial, this modern day witch hunt really deserved to be told, While I do not find it shocking, seeing that it was by no means an isolated incident in modern America, but the how the "witchfinders" manage get away with it is disturbing nonetheless.

However, as a documentary, it lacked the precision of, say, an Errol Morris film.

The events/contents beg for a procedural treatment, but instead the film makers focus on the emotional content of the piece, turning it into a feature length version of a 20/20 segment.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hard Hitting Documentary, April 16, 2009

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D. Hardy - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Witch Hunt DVD (DVD)

Sean Penn narrates this hard hitting documentary film about the US justice system. Guaranteed to make your blood boil, Witch Hunt focuses on the human toll wrongful convictions take on everyday people. It truly can happen to anyone.