Witch Hunt

Witch Hunt (2008)

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Academy Award-winner Sean Penn serves as producer and narrator of this documentary detailing the disturbing spike in child-molestation allegations and sex-abuse cases in the small California community of Bakersfield during the 1980s, and the rash of convictions that quickly followed. It was during… More

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Unrated, 1 hr. 31 min.
Directed By
Don Hardy Jr., Dana Nachman
Genres
Documentary, Special Interest
On DVD
Apr 14, 2009
Your Half Media Group

Critic Reviews

  • Steve Rhodes, Internet Reviews

    It's the sort of documentary that can reduce a grown man to tears. I know because it certainly had that effect on me.

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  • Melvin W


    Witch Hunt is an important documentary and shows that innocent people can still be convicted of crimes. It's a deeply disturbing, horrifying, and sad documentary about some different people in Bakersfield, CA who were wrongly accused of child molestation. Many of the charges were… More

  • Walter M


    "Witch Hunt" is a heartbreaking documentary about the wrongful prosecution of people accused of child molestation in Bakersfield, California by an ambitious district attorney in the 1980's. Even after new evidence had been found to refute the original charges, it is… More

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