DVD
West of Memphis
Languages
English dialogue; Spanish, French, Korean, Chinese, Thai or English subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Miskelly, Lorri Davis.
Publication Information
Culver City, CA : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2013]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (ca. 147 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: R; for disturbing violent content and some language.
Summary
From Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg, in collaboration with the multiple Academy Award-winning team of Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, this documentary tells the untold story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight to stop the State of Arkansas from killing an innocent man. Told and produced by those who lived it, Damien Echols and Lorri Davis, the film uncovers new evidence surrounding the 1993 murders of three eight-year-old boys in the small town of West Memphis, Arkansas, and exposes the wrongful conviction of three teenagers who lost 18 years of their lives imprisoned for crimes they did not commit.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a documentary in 2012.
Special features: commentary with Amy Berg, Damien Echols and Lorri Davis ; deleted scenes.
Subjects
- Judicial error > Arkansas > West Memphis > Case studies.
- Juvenile homicide > Arkansas > West Memphis > Case studies.
- Criminal justice, Administration of > Arkansas > West Memphis > Case studies.
- Trials (Murder) > Arkansas > West Memphis.
- Murder > Arkansas > West Memphis.
- Echols, Damien.
- Baldwin, Charles Jason, 1977-
- Misskelley, Jessie.