The Chicago 8 (2011)

Actors: Richard Halsey (editor), Shirly Brener (actress), Thomas Ian Nicholas (actor), Shirly Brener (producer), Kirsten Vangsness (actress), Alain Jakubowicz (producer), Kenyon Glover (actor), Orlando Jones (actor), Gary Cole (actor), Lochlyn Munro (actor), Circus-Szalewski (actor), Willow Hale (actress), Philip Baker Hall (actor), Claude Forest (miscellaneous crew), Maxine Brooks (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Based on actual court transcripts of 8 anti-war protesters on trial for conspiring to cause riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Genres: ,

Quotes:

[repeated line]::Abbie Hoffman: Yippie!

Bill Kunstler: Jail is better than getting your asses shot in Vietnam.

Abbie Hoffman: Sorry dad, I'm ready to go to jail.

Jerry Rubin: [trying to interrupt a huge confusion in the court] Heil Hitler. Heil Hitler. Heil Hitler. Heil Hitler. Heil Hitler. Heil Hitler. [the fight in the courtroom stops]

Abbie Hoffman: [speaking Yiddish to the judge] You are a disgrace in front of the gentiles.

I'm Not There. (2007)

Actors: Larry Day (actor), Tyrone Benskin (actor), Jason Cavalier (actor), David Cross (actor), Bill Croft (actor), Noel Burton (actor), Mark Camacho (actor), Benz Antoine (actor), Joe Cobden (actor), Bill Croft (actor), Christian Bale (actor), Benz Antoine (actor), Christian Bale (actor), Richard Gere (actor), Don Francks (actor),

Plot: Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan's music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the artist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin' Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won't be classified.

Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, activist, actor, actress-playing-male-role, african-american, airplane, airplane-stewardess, airplane-trip
Genres: Biography, Drama, Music,
Taglines: All I Can Do Is Be Me Whoever That Is

Quotes:

Arthur: I accept chaos. I don't know whether it accepts me.

Jude: [to a crucifix] How does it feel?

[last lines]::Billy the Kid: It's like you got yesterday, today and tomorrow, all in the same room. There's no telling what can happen.

Jude: How can I answer that if you got the nerve to ask me?

Reporter: Jude! One word for your fans?::Jude: Astronaut.

Jude: Look at all these medicines! Hey man what are those?::Man At Party: Mandy's, make you sleep.::Jude: Sleep? aint sleepin'... Sleep's for dreamers. I haven't slept in thirty days, man. Takes a lot of medicine to keep up this pace.

Jude: God, I'm glad I'm not me.

Robbie Clark: [pointing to a billboard of Jack Rollins] It's not about me anymore, it's all about him.

Jude: Doesn't really matter, you know, what kind of nasty names people invent for the music. But, uh, folk music is just a word, you know, that I can't use anymore. What I'm talking about is traditional music, right, which is to say it's mathematical music, it's based on hexagons. But all these songs about, you know, roses growing out of people's brains and lovers who are really geese and swans are turning into angels - I mean, you know, they're not going to die. They're not folk music songs. They're political songs. They're already dead. You'd think that these traditional music people would - would gather that mystery, you know, is a traditional fact, you know, seeing as they're all so full of mystery.::Keenan Jones: And contradictions.::Jude: Yeah, contradictions.::Keenan Jones: And chaos.::Jude: Yes, it's chaos, clocks, and watermelons - you know, it's - it's everything. These people actually think I have some kind of, uh... fantastic imagination. It gets very, uh, lonesome. But traditional music is just, uh... it's too unreal to die. It doesn't need to be protected. You know, I mean, in that music is the only true valid death you can feel today, you know, off a record player. But like everything else in great demand, people try to own it. Has to do with, like, uh, the purity thing. I think its meaninglessness is holy. Everybody knows I'm not a folk singer.

Claire: I would like to know what is at the center of your world.::Robbie Clark: Well, I'm 22, I guess I would say me.

Chicago 10 (2007)

Actors: Liev Schreiber (actor), Michael J. Harker (miscellaneous crew), Roy Scheider (actor), James Urbaniak (actor), Jeffrey Wright (actor), Jeff Danna (composer), Mark Ruffalo (actor), Hank Azaria (actor), Hank Azaria (actor), James Urbaniak (actor), Dylan Baker (actor), Dylan Baker (actor), Nick Nolte (actor), John Sloss (miscellaneous crew), Erin Heidenreich (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Animation, Documentary, History, War,
Taglines: The convention was drama. The trial was comedy. Speak Your Peace.

Steal This Movie (2000)

Actors: Richard Nixon (actor), Roy Rogers (actor), Shawn Lawrence (actor), Donal Logue (actor), Martin Luther King (actor), Kevin Pollak (actor), Vincent D'Onofrio (actor), Jimmy Carter (actor), Michael Cera (actor), Lyndon Johnson (actor), Troy Garity (actor), Robert F. Kennedy (actor), Kevin Corrigan (actor), Timm Zemanek (actor), Scott Wickware (actor),

Plot: Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left. The skeptical reporter interviews Anita, Hoffman's wife, a single mom on welfare in New York City; Hoffman's attorney, Gerry Lefcourt; and others. As they talk, we see Hoffman's career in flashbacks, from early civil rights organizing through the trial of the Chicago Eight. While underground, as mental illness takes its toll, he meets Johanna Lawrenson, and an odd family develops: Abbie, Anita, their son, and Johanna. Will vindication ever arrive?

Keywords: 1960s, 1968-democratic-convention, 1970s, african-american, airplane, alienation, american, amusement-park, anti-establishment, apartheid
Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance,

The '60s (1999)

Actors: Jerry O'Connell (actor), David Alan Grier (actor), Bill Smitrovich (actor), Rosanna Arquette (actress), Julia Stiles (actress), Emmy Collins (actor), Jeremy Sisto (actor), Steve Eastin (actor), Charles S. Dutton (actor), Josh Hamilton (actor), Raynor Scheine (actor), Kyle Oliver (miscellaneous crew), Kimberly Scott (actress), Bill Couturié (writer), Bill Couturié (writer),

Plot: The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.

Keywords: 1960s, anti-war-demonstration, black-activist, black-panthers, chicago-illinois, civil-rights, college-student, coming-of-age, commune, concert
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: You only really know what you have when your'e about to lose it.

Quotes:

Bill Herlihy: I may not know what exactly a consciencious objector is. But I do know what a consciense is.

Bill Herlihy: Are you still my baby?::Katie Herlihy: No, dad, I grew up. But I am still your daughter.

[On his son Michael being a Conscientious Objector to Vietnam]::Bill Herlihy: "If my son says he can't fight, it's not because he's not brave enough, it's because he's brave enough to stand up for what he believes in."

Michael Herlihy: Wait, I forgot Something::Sarah Weinstock: What?::Michael Herlihy: My Heart.

Sheriff: You know, Willie, these cameras ain't gonna be here every day.::Rev. Willie Taylor: No they won't. But we will.

Rev. Willie Taylor: Don't you EVER forget what you seen here.

Brian Herlihy: This is the wrong war for your principles.

[Michael is depressed after Robert Kennedy's murder]::Bill Herlihy: Who do you want? Nixon? Becasue that's what you're gonna get if you keep this up. Nixon.

Katie Herlihy: [Katie is broke and no-one will help her] Peace and love, my ass! I hate this goddamn city!

Katie Herlihy: Michael Rainbow, I'm going to make you a promise. I am going to take this money, and then I am going to find a nice, warm place for us to stay, for as long as we want. [starts crying] I don't know where! But we are never going to spend another night sleeping on a stranger's couch and begging for food, I promise you, ok? I swear to God!

Panther (1995)

Actors: Chris Tucker (actor), Roger Guenveur Smith (actor), Robert Peters (actor), James Russo (actor), Kadeem Hardison (actor), Chris Rock (actor), James Le Gros (actor), Christopher Michael (actor), Joe Don Baker (actor), Richard Dysart (actor), Bobby Brown (actor), Dick Gregory (actor), Robert Culp (actor), Melvin Van Peebles (actor), Mario Van Peebles (actor),

Plot: Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Panther's history in Oakland. Panther also uses historical footage (B/W) to emphasize some points.

Keywords: 1960s, african-american, animal-in-title, based-on-novel, black-militant, black-power, bloody-body-of-child, dead-child, death-of-child, drugs
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: The People Called Them Heroes. The F.B.I. Called Them Public Enemy Number One. From the director of "New Jack City" and "Posse"

Quotes:

Bobby Seale: We not anti-white, we anti-oppression! You can't fight racism with racism.

Tyrone: Uh, Alma is it? We don't...::Alma: What? I'm black ain't I, I wanna help my community right or do you think oppression ends with that thing dangling between your legs?::Tyrone: But...::Alma: But nothing! We want full-fledged membership in the Black Panther Party and none of that alright sugar as long as you play the background, rubbing my feet, getting my drink bullshit, you dig?

Bobby Seale: Brother Malcolm said we should stop sangin' and start swangin'.

Black cop: You know you can't help but admire those young Brothers, they do alot of good in their communities.::Pruitt: You ever hear about the common good, the United States of America is more than a simple collection of ghettoes, this country was built on Capitalism and Democracy, and in a Democracy, the Majority rules, we are a Minority unless we integrate, fully!::Black cop: Whose side are you on? Brother::Pruitt: No! Whose side are you on? Officer

Rodgers: [a Black FBI agent is being introduced] Gentleman, this is Pruitt, he'll be working with us from here on in.::Brimmer: But isn't he...::Pruitt: Special People for Special Problems::Brimmer: Sorry I didn't know that the FBI had...::Pruitt: Obviously there are many things that you don't know, should we just get to the point, the Black Panthers have united with other organizations sponsored by the communists to undermine our efforts in Vietnam. In the opinion of Mr. Hoover, the Black Panther Party is Public Enemy Number One. They have quite simply guaranteed their own extinction.

Nervous cop: [Panthers approach Oakland Cops beating a man outside a night club with a large crowd observing] So uh Huey, So what's your telephone number?::Huey Newton: I confirmed with you my address that's all I'm required by California law, we ain't broken no laws!::Nervous cop: Then what are you doing with that gun?::Huey Newton: Well what are you doing with yours?::Nervous cop: Let me see that rifle son!::Huey Newton: No! This is my private property! According to California Law, we have a constitutional right to bear arms!::Grove Street cop: [to Crowd intrigued by Panthers] Move Along, go about your business::Huey Newton: Wait Wait Wait, Brothers and Sisters, No, you ain't gotta go nowhere, this is your business, stay right here! The law states as long as you are standing a reasonable distance, that's eight to ten feet to be exact, you have the right to observe the police carrying out their duties, and from what I can see, you are standing twenty two feet away from this man! So Brothers ain't no law being broken!::Bobby Seale: That's right, you stay right where you are, you ain't got to go nowhere!::Nervous cop: Is that gun loaded BOY?::Huey Newton: Fish and Game law clearly states it is unlawful to carry a live round of ammunition in a chamber of a shotgun or rifle in a vehicle PIG!::Grove Street cop: [Angrily, as crowd cheers on Panthers] Refer to him as OFFICER!::Bobby Seale: Then don't you refer to him as BOY!::Nervous cop: Well, is it loaded?::Huey Newton: I'd tell you Officer it wasn't, but now it is! [Panthers cock guns and approach officers with crowd cheering]::Nervous cop: Now for the last time boy, what do those guns mean?::Huey Newton: They mean PIG that the Black Panther Party declares you try to brutalize our community, you try to take our weapons, we'll shoot you! [Police look around and then retreat to Patrol Cars as crowd cheers on Panthers]

Cy: [to White Girls looking for drugs] Every Black man you lay eyes on ain't a dope dealer

Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987)

Actors: Maxine Bergen (miscellaneous crew), Peter Boyle (actor), Robert Carradine (actor), David Clennon (actor), Elliott Gould (actor), Michael Lembeck (actor), Robert Loggia (actor), Carl Lumbly (actor), Ron Rifkin (actor), Martin Sheen (actor), Harris Yulin (actor), Billy Zane (actor), David Opatoshu (actor), Michael Jablow (editor), Jeremy Kagan (producer),

Plot: A made-for-cable-TV docudrama about the trial of the men accused of conspiring to cause protesters to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Combines in an innovative manner dramatic recreations (largely faithful to the actual trial transcripts) with documentary footage and interviews with the actual defendants.

Keywords: based-on-true-story
Genres: Drama,

Attica (1980)

Actors: Walker Edmiston (actor), Glynn Turman (actor), Gil Melle (composer), Marvin J. Chomsky (director), Henry Darrow (actor), Andrew Duggan (actor), Richard Gant (actor), Simon Williams (actor), Anthony Zerbe (actor), George Grizzard (actor), Charles Durning (actor), Morgan Freeman (actor), James Greene (actor), Roger E. Mosley (actor), Paul LaMastra (editor),

Plot: A TV-movie re-creation of the tragic events which followed the Attica Correctional Facility rebellion of September 9, 1971. Inmates demanding better food and living conditions took 38 guards as hostage. Negotiations begin immediately, only to continually break down thanks to uncompromising stubbornness on both sides. Four days into the crisis, the rebellion ends in a bloodbath, with state troopers firing on the prisoners, killing several of the guards in the process. Based on the eyewitness reporting of the New York Times' Tom Wicker, who was one of the civilian negotiators during the stalemate.

Keywords: 1970s, anger, attica, based-on-book, based-on-true-story, bloodbath, confrontation, convict, docudrama, fight-the-system
Genres: Drama,

Chicago 70 (1970)

Actors: Herschell Gordon Lewis (writer), François Klanfer (actor), Kerry Feltham (director), Kerry Feltham (producer), Yvonne Gilbert (actress), Calvin Butler (actor), Peter Faulkner (actor), Carol Carrington (actress), George Luscombe (miscellaneous crew), George Luscombe (miscellaneous crew), Italo Costa (editor), Rick McKenna (actor), Neil Walsh (actor), Featherstone Fanshaw (editor), James T. Lawrence (actor),

Plot: This bizarre amalgam of "Alice in Wonderland" and the transcripts of the Chicago 7 Trial makes for an interesting commentary on the American judicial system.

Keywords: 1960s, abuse-of-power, anti-authority, anti-conformity, art, conspiracy, counter-culture, courtroom, independent-film, justice
Genres: Drama,