Although the film was generally well received, the depictions of the check points were controversial and provoked strong reactions.
At some checkpoints, such as the high-tech fortress at the Gaza Strip crossing, there are hundreds of people crowded and waiting to get through.
The film shows a school bus full of children pass several times at South Jenin.
Checkpoint is a part of the independent digital documentary movement in the early 2000s, in part due to the introduction of relatively inexpensive digital tape-based video cameras and the sudden affordability of powerful desktop video editing systems.
[4] This in-the-trenches filmmaking lent itself to direct cinema, or cinéma vérité, a definition that spans from reality television to the Pennebaker films of the 1960s.
She refers to the digital revolution as no less as explosive as the Lumiere Brothers’ invention of the cinematograph during the turn of the 19th century.
According to Falzone, a specific kind of documentary was forged by filmmakers looking to challenge mainstream media's interpretation of events.