The Witness
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DVD-R Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: September 20, 2016
- Originally Released: 2015
- Label: Film Rise
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Directed by | James D. Solomon | |
Produced by | James D. Solomon |
Entertainment Reviews:
An engrossing detective story, an enlightening sociological study, and a heartbreaking story of unreconciled grief, "The Witness" is one of the best documentaries of 2016.
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Boston Globe
Rating: 3/4 --
"The Witness" makes an encouraging case for the argument that society is not as apathetic as we fear. But it also reveals a troubling phenomenon: our willingness to accept all that we are told as truth.
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Washington Post
Skillful, complex, and purposely understated, The Witness succeeds not just as a re-examination of one of the most talked-about crimes in modern memory, but as a very touching, human tale of a brother trying to get to know the sister he lost too soon.
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Under the Radar
Rating: 4/5 --
For all the tedium of the work before William, "The Witness" is a riveting deconstruction of a decades-old media narrative.
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Arizona Republic
Rating: B+ --
It's a quietly effective documentary that works on two levels.
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Newsday
For years, the legend of the 38 witnesses has been held up as an example of apathy and disconnect, but The Witness proves that the fabric of humanity is actually so strong, that our ties can endure for decades after our deaths.
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Bust Magazine
"The Witness" is fascinating enough for its careful reporting of the circumstances surrounding the infamous murder, but equally as a study of the impact of crimes on those left behind.
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News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
Description by OLDIES.com:
On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese died after being attacked on a street in Kew Gardens, Queens. Soon after, The New York Times published a front-page story asserting that thirty-eight witnesses watched her being murdered from their apartment windows for over half an hour and did nothing to help. The death of Kitty Genovese, 28, quickly became a symbol of urban apathy. The Witness follows the efforts of her brother, Bill Genovese, as he attempts to uncover the truth buried beneath the story. In the process, he makes startling discoveries about the crime that transformed his life, condemned a city and defined an era.
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- Sales Rank: 69,664
- UPC: 885444776540
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