The use of close-circuit video footage in a film has a way of suggesting a crime. The images from a ceiling surveillance camera of the basketball star Brittney Griner approaching the screening machinery in the Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow and, a short time later, of the security officers working their way through her baggage offers a case in point. Only the crime in the “The Brittney Griner Story” — an ESPN “30 for 30” documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival — isn’t the half-empty cannabis cartridge pen they find but the wrongful detainment of an American citizen for political purposes. Doubtful? You won’t be after watching
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