Smile for the Dead: An Examination of Spirit Photography

(2025)

★ 6.3 IMDb · 143 votes

Genres: Documentary, Crime

Year: 2025

Country: United States of America

Director: Hamilton Young Ward

Cast: Hamilton Young Ward, Mark Osterman, Crista Cloutier, Felicity T.C. Hamer, Leslie Young-Ward, Katrina Weidman

Plot

1869: William H Mumler stood trial for fraud in New York for claiming to photograph spirits of customers' deceased loved ones. Mumler walked free as experts of the day could not figure his methods. Was he a fraud? Or could he truly photograph the dead?