Film
American Revolution 2
- 6:45PM
1968 was the year Western society seemed to erupt and counterculture documentarian Howard Alk captured the society-shaking turbulence as it played out on the streets of Chicago. With raw, you-are-there immediacy, this visceral slice of political vérité chronicles the violent clashes between police and protesters that rocked the 1968 Democratic Convention and the aftermath, as Black Panther members work to form an alliance with poor, disenfranchised whites.
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