Greensboro: Closer to the Truth

Adam Zucker's Greensboro: Closer to the Truth examines the events of November 3, 1979 in Greensboro, NC. On this day, members of the Communist Workers Party were holding a Death to the Klan rally, when Klansmen and Nazis emerged from a caravan of cars, unloaded an arsenal of guns and began firing. Five people were killed in what became known as the Greensboro Massacre.

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.