The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez (2007) Documentary DVDrip AVI torrent

The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez (2007)

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In 1997, no one in the small town of Redford, Texas (pop. 100) knew that U.S. Marine teams, fully camouflaged and armed with M16 rifles, had been secretly deployed to their section of the border.

The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez tells a frightening and cautionary tale about the dangers of using military as domestic law enforcement -- a role that the military, under the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, had been prohibited from taking. That changed when in 1989, the George H.W. Bush administration declared drug-trafficking a "threat to national security" and authorized the deployment of thousands of troops to the US-Mexico border. In 1997, during the Clinton administration, Esequiel Hernandez became the first American killed by U.S. military forces on native soil since the 1970 Kent State shootings.

Narrated by Tommy Lee Jones (a native of west Texas whose film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada was inspired by the Hernández shooting), The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez features a full array of remarkably candid accounts from three of the four Marines on the fatal mission; Esequiel's family, friends and teachers; Marine Corps investigators; FBI and defense attorneys. The film also makes use of military investigative video and audio recordings of radio communication between the Marine team and their commanders before Hernández was shot.

Both the Department of Defense and the Justice Departmant blatantly lied about the incident, covering up the truth that a Marine murdered a good Texan.


http://www.pbs.org/pov/ballad/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014761/
http://www.der.org/films/ballad-of-esequiel-hernandez.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esequiel_Hern%C3%A1ndez_Jr
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/pov-the-ballad-of-esequiel-hernandez/
http://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2008-06-06/632179/


DVDrip with AutoGK
Rip specs:
Format : AVI
Duration : 1h 22mn
Overall bit rate : 2 380 Kbps
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 2178/release
Video #0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Codec ID : XVID
Bit rate : 2 148 Kbps
Width : 704 pixels
Height : 400 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.255
Audio #1
Format : AC-3
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 224 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Language : English/Spanish

Tried ripping subtitles with SubRip to srt but ran into lots of trouble. Have included sub/idx files used by most players. Spoken Spanish has burned-in English subs onscreen.