Organizers say some 300,000 people, mostly young, walked under overcast skies Friday at the annual March for Life. American Life League’s Katie Walker says the media typically counts the March for Life crowd as “thousands” when in reality, hundreds of thousands from across the country are amassed. (Editor’s note: Washington Post recorded “tens of thousands of abortion opponents marched”)

Steve Sanborn, a development and public relations professional, grew weary of the inaccurate or lack of coverage. So he brought a crew together, including documentary film producer Jack Cashill (“The Holocaust Through Our Own Eyes”) and set up cameras on rooftops to record and show the true numbers of March for Life participants.

“Thine Eyes: A Witness to the March or Life” – derived from Psalm 139:16 – is the first high-end documentary on the March for Life. It follows groups of college and high school students from Atchison, Kan., St. Louis, and Birmingham, Ala., who load buses to travel to the 2009 March for Life. Cameras on the ground show a diverse crowd who have traveled hundreds or thousands of miles to march one mile in Washington – all united for the purpose of protecting the preborn.

“Thine Eyes” refutes the media’s reporting of not only the number of marchers but also their portrayals of marchers as angry and old. The film reveals that the majority of March for Life participants are under 25 years of age and not violent.

“A lot of times it’s surprising for people seeing the number of people for the first time who are all united,” one young female student in the film says. “For a first-timer that’s someone that may grow in their zeal for the movement just by seeing the sheer number of people there, being able to observe it and take it all in and really see for themselves how many people in America are pro-life and that pro-lifers aren’t just the weirdo person you see walking down the hall at school or some radical who’s not likable at all.”

March for Life is held every year on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. With the anniversary falling on a weekend in 2011 and 2012, organizers have moved the march to the Monday after the Jan. 23 anniversary to give marchers the opportunity to visit with their Congressional delegates and press their pro-life message.

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