A law professor and her students assist organizations fighting the ongoing immigration crisis along the Arizona-Mexico border while honoring those who have perished on their journey into America.

Crosses in the Dust

A law professor and her students assist organizations fighting the ongoing immigration crisis along the Arizona-Mexico border while honoring those who have perished on their journey into America.

Town Destroyer explores the ways we look at art and history at a time of racial reckoning. The story focuses on a dispute over historic murals depicting the life of George Washington: slaveowner, general, land speculator, President, and a man Seneca leaders called "Town Destroyer" after he ordered their villages destroyed during the Revolutionary War. The murals, at San Francisco's George Washington High School, were painted in 1936 by leftwing artist Victor Arnautoff, a student of Diego Rivera. The murals both praise Washington and—rare for the time—critically depict him overseeing his slaves and directing the bloody seizure of Native lands. Most controversial is a provocative image of a dead Indian—life-size, eye-level, and at the center of the school. The film addresses current debates over trauma, student safety, and cancel culture: Do images trigger trauma in students? How should a changing society deal with controversial works of art? Do the intentions of the artist matter? Or just the impact on viewers? Is it censorship to destroy murals that show painful histories? What does our country owe people who have been historically wronged?

Town Destroyer

A fight over historic murals at a San Francisco high school depicting the life of George Washington catalyzes debate about censorship, generational trauma, and how U.S. history is taught.

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