After years of political polemics regarding illegal immigration and border enforcement, this documentary is a refreshing, open-eyed look at the situation on the ground.  Actor-turned-director Chris Burgard has taken his camera crew on location to get to the heart of the matter.

Burgard’s film follows his enormous blue bus as he travels to Washington, D.C. and to our Southern border for a first-hand look at issues that are generally presented in sound-bites by the evening news.  Much of the film’s attention is given to the Minuteman Civil Defense Corp (MCDC), providing an inside look at the nature of its operations and its participants.  For his documentary, Burgard offers to provide expense-paid transportation to MDCD Founder Chris Simcox in order to gather coverage of Simcox’s activities. 

At film’s end, applause was vigorous, and viewers spoke of feeling “like an American again”.  Devoid of mind-dazzling computer effects and manipulative post-production techniques, this film is a genuine documentary.  So powerful is its honesty that, as related by Burgard, one theater owner ran it simultaneously with “Harry Potter” yet “Border” drew more audience.  As its website boasts, the film has already won first-place documentary awards in film festivals.