Critical Incident: Death at the Border (2025)

Name: Critical Incident: Death at the Border
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-12-29
Duration: 1 hr 30 min
Rating: 52
Cast: John Carlos Frey

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StarringJohn Carlos Frey

DirectorRick Rowley

WriterRick Rowley

NR 1 hr 30 minDec 29th, 2025Documentary

Plot

Revisits the 2010 death of Anastasio Hernández-Rojas, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who died while in custody at the border. When eye-witness video emerges, it sparks a far-reaching investigation from a border checkpoint to Washington D.C. CRITICAL INCIDENT chronicles journalists’, lawyers’, and family members’ efforts to explore the Border Patrol’s involvement in the incident, ultimately pointing to cover-ups, and uncovering the existence of a little-known unit inside the agency that had been involved in other border related incident.

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On Digital & Streaming:December 29th, 2025

Original Language:English

Executive Producers:Rick Rowley, A.C. Thompson, Nathan Ross, Jean-Marc Vallée, Mike Antinoro, Missy Walker, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Tina Nguyen

Production Companies:HBO Documentary Films, Crazyrose, Film 45, Midnight Films

Critical Incident: Death at the Border on the Web:Official Website

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