On October 20, 1967, Roger Patterson captured 60 seconds of film showing a creature walking through the Northern California woods—footage that became the most analyzed and debated in history. Fifty-seven years later, a reel of 16mm film discovered in a safe changes everything, revealing the untold story behind the world's greatest mystery, told for the first time by Patterson's own son and the people who were there.
If you’re not invested in the question of whether the ’67 footage is real or an elaborate hoax, you won’t find the newly discovered material explosive, but even so, its significance is resoundingly clear.
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Richard Whittaker
RTAustin ChronicleMar 18, 2026
No study has ever really looked at its creation and the impact upon the people caught up in its wake quite like Capturing Bigfoot.
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Chase Hutchinson
RTThe Inlander (Spokane, WA)Mar 30, 2026
Packed full of more unexpected revelations about the potential origins of the towering hairy creature while never losing sight of the human beings stuck in its shadow, it’s an incisive work.
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Alan French
RTSunshine State CineplexMar 21, 2026
Capturing Bigfoot does not judge its figures. Instead, Evans chooses to deliver an exploration of a subculture through the figures that created the myths and legends.
