What to do when your community is being overtaken by white supremacists? How do you resist an armed separatist militia driven by nationalism? I saw this pre-Trump, in 2015 at the Rooftop Films festival, and it’s stuck with me since, made all the more poignant by the current political shifts. A really great documentary that deserves more exposure and the hype equal to that of A Wild Wild Country. The very terrifying heart of America, crucial to acknowledge and educate against.

Welcome to Leith, 2015
Director: Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K. Walker

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