I Will be Murdered (2013)

Director: Justin Webster
Run Time: 53 min.
Call Number: F1466.7 .I22 2013

"On a Sunday morning in May, 2009, Rodrigo Rosenberg, a wealthy, charismatic lawyer was gunned down near his home in Guatemala City. Nothing unusual in that, as the country was suffering one of the highest homicide rates in the world. What was extraordinary was that he knew he was going to be killed. . . . Two of Rosenberg’s clients had been murdered a few weeks before. He was driven to investigate a case which, he told his friends, he feared would lead to his death. A video he recorded days before he died accused the president of his murder. Uploaded to YouTube, it nearly brought down the government. Thousands took to the street in protest."

—Filmmaker's website

West of Memphis (2013)

Director: Amy Berg
Music: Nick Cave
Run Time: 147 min.
Call Number: HV6534.W47 W473 2013

"In 1993, three 8-year-old boys . . . were murdered in West Memphis, Ark. Police arrested three teenagers – Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Lloyd Misskelley Jr. – and charged them with capital murder based on the theory that Echols, a known reader of Stephen King novels and wearer of black T-shirts, was the ringleader of a homicidal satanic cult, and that Baldwin and Misskelley were his followers. . . . Providing testimony from 'experts' with mail-order diplomas and no direct evidence, the prosecution scared jurors witless with photos of the victims’ mutilated bodies and obtained first-degree convictions in all three cases. Baldwin and Misskelley were sentenced to life in prison, and Echols received the death penalty. . . . Moving and gruesome, West of Memphis is an eloquent disquisition on the banality of evil."

—Leah Churner, Austin Chronicle