The Real Death Valley: The Untold Story of Mass Graves and Migrant Deaths in South Texas

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 29 min
  • Premiere: 2014. August 11.

    In "The Real Death Valley," The Weather Channel reveals the little-known story of hundreds of migrants who have died in the sweltering Texas brush over the past five years while attempting to evade a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint that's not even on the border - in fact it's 70 miles inside the United States. "'The Real Death Valley' is an important story that needs to be told," said Emmy-winning correspondent John Carlos Frey. "We take viewers on the same four-day, 40-mile trek, through tough terrain and sweltering heat that's taken by the migrants themselves. And we ride with law enforcement as they discover migrant corpses, up to four a week during the hot summer months. I think it soon becomes clear why so many people are losing their lives." "The Real Death Valley" was produced by the Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning team of Solly Granatstein and Shawn Efran for Weather Films, the award-winning digital documentary unit of weather.com.

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    Camera

    Lucian Read

    Director of Photography

    Editing

    Production

    Neil Katz

    Executive Producer

    Shawn Efran

    Executive Producer

    Shawn Efran

    Producer

    Solly Granatstein

    Executive Producer

    Greg Gilderman

    Executive Producer

    Marisa Venegas

    Executive Producer

    Camera

    Lucian Read

    Director of Photography

    Editing

    Production

    Neil Katz

    Executive Producer

    Shawn Efran

    Executive Producer

    Shawn Efran

    Producer

    Solly Granatstein

    Executive Producer

    Greg Gilderman

    Executive Producer

    Marisa Venegas

    Executive Producer