Greensboro Closer to the Truth (2007)

On November 3 1979 members of the Communist Workers Party were holding a Death to the Klan rally in Greensboro North Carolina Suddenly a caravan rounded the corner scattering the protesters Klansmen and Nazis emerged from the cars unloaded an arsenal of guns and began firing Five people were killed in what became known as the Greensboro Massacre Greensboro Closer to the Truth reconnects 25 years later with the players in this tragedywidowed and wounded survivors along with their attackersand chronicles how their lives have evolved in the long aftermath of the killings All converge when the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission ever held in the United States is convened in Greensboro from 20042006 to investigate the Massacre As the Commission struggles to uncover what actually happened and why the participants confront the truth of their past and struggle with the possibility of hope and redemption