Checkpoint Zoo

Checkpoint Zoo portrays a caged and dependent menagerie that bewilderingly experienced humans at their worst and, fortunately, their best.

A prolific producer whose prior directorial projects were largely in a true-crime vein, Zeman brings considerable polish as well as suspense to this exercise in more urgent, you-are-there documentary narrative.

It’s certainly an admirable effort, both the animal rescue itself and the warzone documentation of it

It's impossible to watch this gripping, haunting and heart-tugging documentary and not be moved by the human stories and animal predicaments caused by an unprovoked war. Josh Zeman captures raw emotions with the taut storytelling of an action thriller.