HBO Original Documentary “Critical Incident” Debuts December 29

The HBO Original documentary CRITICAL INCIDENT, a production of Crazyrose, Film 45, and Midnight Films, directed by Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Rick Rowley (“Dirty Wars”), debuts Monday, December 29 (9:00-10:30PM ET/PT) on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max.

CRITICAL INCIDENT 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 incidents. In 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection disbanded the Critical Incident Teams, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights held a hearing on the Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas case, ultimately calling for the reopening of the case and recognizing that Hernandez-Rojas’ human rights had been violated during his arrest.

Credits: HBO Documentary Films presents CRITICAL INCIDENT, in association with Crazyrose, Film 45, and Midnight Films. Executive produced and directed by Rick Rowley; senior produced by Juliana Schatz-Preston; produced by Karim Hajj; executive produced by A.C. Thompson, Nathan Ross, Jean-Marc Vallée, Michael Antinoro, and Missy Walker. For HBO: executive producers, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, and Tina Nguyen.