Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris (“as influential a doc maker as the industry has” – Variety) incisively probes the darkest chapters 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 hundreds of families remain separated today. Separated plays not as a screed, but as a thriller. You can feel the tension as Morris untangles the trail of responsibility, drawing a thin, clear line through a real-world conspiracy that resulted in more than 4,000 kids — some no more than infants — being whisked away to facilities far removed from their parents.

This screening is followed by a discussion with NBC News Political and National Correspondent Jacob Soboroff, author of Separated: Inside an American Tragedy and executive producer of Separated.