Critical Incident: Death at the Border (2025)

Revisits the 2010 death of Anastasio Hernández-Rojas, an undocumented Mexican immigrant who died while in custody at the border. When eye-witness video emerges, it sparks a far-reaching investigation from a border checkpoint to Washington D.C. CRITICAL INCIDENT chronicles journalists’, lawyers’, and family members’ efforts to explore the Border Patrol’s involvement in the incident, ultimately pointing to cover-ups, and uncovering the existence of a little-known unit inside the agency that had been involved in other border related incident.

Released Dec. 29, 2025 90 min 15+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: tmdb.true-crime, tmdb.undocumented-immigrant, tmdb.usa-mexico-border, mdblist.one-actor, mdblist.has-trailer, mdblist.hbo-max-original

Watch Providers: HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max

Production Companies: HBO Documentary Films, Midnight Films, Crazyrose, Film 45

Country: United States
Production Country: United States
Languages: English