Radical nostalgia for a time when anti-war sentiment was working itself up to “the Second American Revolution.” (A long way from the current sentiment against the war in Iraq.) The Democratic National Convention of 1968 and the subsequent trial of Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden, Bobby Seale, et al., are recalled in archive footage and comic-bookish animated sequences, mostly in illustration of the court transcripts. (No present-day interviews or reportorial narration.) The story is well told and well worth retelling. With the voices of Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, Hank Azaria, Jeffrey Wright, Nick Nolte, and Roy Scheider; directed by Brett Morgen. (2008) — Duncan Shepherd
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