A Gray State
A Gray State is a 2017 documentary film directed by Erik Nelson and executive produced by Werner Herzog, first broadcast on the A&E Network. It explores the death by suicide of aspiring filmmaker David Crowley and the murders of his wife and child in 2014. The film tells the story of Crowley's military service in the Middle East, his efforts to fund and make a film, and explores the circumstances surrounding the deaths. Producer Herzog and director Nelson had previously worked together on 2005's Grizzly Man, which Nelson produced, and Herzog directed.
Crowley had been working on a feature film he called Gray State.
In Crowley's film shadowy elements from within the US government declare a state of emergency start rounding up ordinary Americans, placing them in extrajudicial detention, or flat out murdering them. Heroic fans of the Constitutions Second Amendment try to resist.
