Separated

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Separated

2024

1h 33m

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Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris incisively probes the darkest chapter in recent American history: family separations. Merging narrative vignettes of one migrant family's plight with hard-hitting interviews with government officials, Morris paints a jaw-dropping picture of the state-sponsored crisis of cruelty, as over 1300 children remain separated today, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

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Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

12/06/2024

3.5/4

It's illuminating in the most chilling way.

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Bob Strauss

San Francisco Chronicle

11/20/2024

3/4

Still, current events lend the film a power that goes beyond its flaws. The way “Separated” looks back in indignation is now incalculably enhanced by fear for the future, with even more traumatizing measures on the horizon...

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Steve Pond

TheWrap

10/15/2024

“Separated” is characteristically thorough and eye-opening.

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Barry Levitt

The Daily Beast

06/05/2025

Separated is an exploration of a particular moment in very contemporary American history and an urgent shaking out of complacency: If we’re not careful, it can all happen again.

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Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality & Practice

01/09/2025

5/5

A shocking documentary tracing the history of the separation of refugee and migrant families at the U.S. border.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

San Francisco Examiner

12/25/2024

3.5/4

This time Morris’ approach is, understandably, less observant and more pressing.

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David F

@dfulmer 03/29/2025

An important, serious film about U.S. government policy on immigrants and the sadistic policies undertaken to deter people from trying to immigrate to America.

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12/16/2024

If you commit a Crime you will be arrested no child nor wife goes into Jail with you. Over 300,000 Children are missing according to our Government sold into work or segs slavery. Come Legally. smh

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Synopsis

Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris incisively probes the darkest chapter in recent American history: family separations. Merging narrative vignettes of one migrant family's plight with hard-hitting interviews with government officials, Morris paints a jaw-dropping picture of the state-sponsored crisis of cruelty, as over 1300 children remain separated today, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Director: Errol Morris
Producer: Errol Morris, Robert Fernandez, Molly O'Brien, Steven Hathaway
Screenwriter: Jacob Soboroff
Distributor: MSNBC Films
Production Co: NBC News Studios, Participant Media, Fourth Floor, Moxie Pictures
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 4, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 17, 2024
Runtime: 1h 33m