Summaries

Documentary on 1960s radicals in the U.S.A.

What happened to the hippies, the yippies, the Black Panthers, the counter- culture kids who rocked the nation's boat in the 1960's? Are they still fighting their fight, have they been co-opted into the culture they fought to overthrow, or were they destroyed by the culture while they struggled? Morley Markson shows us archival footage of some of the leaders - Jery Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, Fred Hampton, John Sinclair, among others - as well as people like poet Allen Ginsburg and lawyer William Kunstler, who represented the Chicago 8 during that seminal trial in 1969 - and then interviews them watching the old footage, to find an answer those questions.—Gary Dickerson <[email protected]>

Details

Keywords
  • 1960s
  • lawyer
  • black panthers
  • radical
  • 1968 democratic national convention
Genres
  • History
  • Documentary
Release date Sep 14, 1988
Countries of origin United States Canada
Language English
Production companies Morley Markson & Associates

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 30m
Color Color
Sound mix Mono
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