In a period marked by anti-immigrant politics in the United States, contemporary documentary films have become an accessible and authoritative platform for not only critiquing border enforcement policy but also making a case for migrants’ freedom of mobility. This chapter tracks the type of photographs frequently remediated in documentaries about migrant deaths between 2001 and 2013 attributed to border control policy. It reveals important changes in how documentary media depict the migrant dead and circulate their images.