| Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris confronts one of the darkest chapters in recent American history: family separations. Based on NBC News Political and National Correspondent Jacob Soboroff’s book, Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, Morris merges bombshell interviews with government officials and artful narrative vignettes tracing one migrant family’s plight. Together they show that the cruelty at the heart of this policy was its very purpose. Against this backdrop, audiences can begin to absorb the U.S. government’s role in developing and implementing policies that have kept over 1300 children without confirmed reunifications years later, according to the Department of Homeland Security. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 04, 2024 |
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| Director: | Errol Morris |
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| Genres: | Documentary |
| Keywords | mexico, immigration, illegal immigration, border, deportation, immigration law, separation, kids |
| Production Companies | Participant, Fourth Floor Productions, NBC News Studios, Moxie Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 03, 2026 Entered: Sep 02, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Gabriela Cartol | Self |
| Diego Armando Lara Lagunes | Self |
| Jacob Soboroff | Self |
| Name | Job |
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| Errol Morris | Director |
| Raymond Prado | Storyboard Artist |
| Paul Leonard-Morgan | Original Music Composer |
| Steven Hathaway | Editor |
| Igor Martinović | Director of Photography |
| Eugenio Caballero | Production Designer |
| Andrea Manuel | Costume Design |
| Alejandro Reza | Casting Director |
| Name | Title |
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| Errol Morris | Producer |
| Robert Fernandez | Producer |
| Molly O'Brien | Producer |
| Steven Hathaway | Producer |
| Jeff Skoll | Executive Producer |
| Diane Weyermann | Executive Producer |
| Noah Oppenheim | Executive Producer |
| Liz Cole | Executive Producer |
| Elizabeth Fischer | Executive Producer |
| Jacob Soboroff | Executive Producer |
| Joshua Kearney | Co-Producer |
| Molly Rokosz | Co-Producer |
| Kamen Velkovsky | Co-Producer |
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