Some films don’t need words. El Desierto is one of them. Carly and Jared Jakins’s award-winning short documentary, premiering on The Atlantic today, follows a lone migrant worker as he shepherds ...

The journey for many migrants who cross illegally into the U.S. is fraught with danger — heat, exhaustion, dehydration and the chance of being deported. But that journey goes from merely harrowing to ...