Greensboro: Closer to the Truth

Greensboro: Closer to the Truth chronicles the Greensboro Massacre of 1979, in which the Ku Klux Klan murdered five members of the Communist Workers Party. Despite extensive television footage of the attack, no one was ever convicted. The film reconnects 25 years later with the players in this tragedy-- widowed and wounded survivors, along with their attackers – and 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 2004-2006 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.