The murder of the children should be the most disturbing thing. But for many viewers, that isn't the case in the four films chronicling the ...

R. 146 minutes. At the Chez Artiste. “West of Memphis” is a long documentary that’s very hard to watch — at times, it’s harrowing. It tells the story of a terrible crime compounded by a ...

West Memphis Three Set Free (Video) Three inmates who were the subject of an HBO documentary claiming their innocence in the murders of a trio of boys were released Friday.

SYDNEY — In the midst of filming The Hobbit, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh have co-produced a new documentary, West of Memphis, on the campaign to exonerate the West Memphis Three, with recently ...

Just over a year after he was released from Death Row, Damien Echols is still readjusting to being back in public. That transition was made particularly surreal one afternoon in Los Angeles ...

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The first press screening for the Peter Jackson produced documentary West of Memphis hit Sundance this morning (we haven't seen it yet, but will before the festival is through), and along with the ...

How you receive Amy Berg's documentary West of Memphis depends on what you already know. Those who have never heard of the West Memphis Three, a trio of Arkansas teenagers who spent nearly two ...

"West of Memphis," Amy Berg's documentary about the West Memphis Three, has been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics, the company said Wednesday. Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson, Damien Echols and Lorri ...

This morning in Jonesboro, Ark., Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, known as the “West Memphis Three,” are being released today after spending 18 years in prison for the 1993 ...

Sometimes a documentary about a newsworthy story, becomes part of the story itself. How "West of Memphis," the documentary produced by Peter Jackson, came to be.