A Crime on the Bayou

It's a good, straightforward documentary.

Buirski's 90-minute film, "A Crime on the Bayou," reminds us how Duncan and Sobol are pillars of courage.

Filmmaker Nancy Buirski has an elegant, judicious way of imparting the facts of the case, taking not just the political temperature of the moment (boiling) but finely sketching the character and minds of the people involved.

The documentary's grace and pacing fit snugly in the writer-director's acclaimed civil rights trilogy

"A Crime on the Bayou," directed by Nancy Buirski, is dryly told, but it has a potent idea, which is to show how even bureaucratic aspects of the legal system in the Deep South in the 1960s could be weaponized against Black Americans.

A documentary that transcends a familiar PBS-type template for something more atmospheric and interesting.

The film’s narrative has some inherent problems, as it rewinds constantly to provide backstory before proceeding, but it’s well worth a little repetition to see how far we have come and be shocked at how little has changed.

Does a good job in balancing the legal, the political and the personal in the telling of its story.

makes for the opposite of a story of a miscarriage of justice. Could we have here a story of the carriage of justice?

Potent documentary on racism.