“The convention was drama. The trial was comedy.”
Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Dylan Baker
David Dellinger / David Stahl (voice)
Hank Azaria
Abbie Hoffman / Allen Ginsberg (voice)
Nick Nolte
Thomas Foran (voice)
Mark Ruffalo
Jerry Rubin (voice)
Roy Scheider
Judge Julius Hoffman (voice)
Liev Schreiber
William Kunstler (voice)
Jeffrey Wright
Bobby Seale (voice)
Debra Eisenstadt
Mary Ellen Dahl / Waitress (voice)
Lloyd Floyd
Robert Pierson / Arthur Aznavoorian / Police Officer (voice)
Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Paul Krassner (voice)
James Urbaniak
Rennie Davis / Richard Schultz (voice)
David Boat
Norman Mailer / Marshal 1 (voice)
Grass
The Phoney War
The Ten Commandments
The Green Berets
The American Miracle
Mind Game
Fuck
LA 92
Room 237
City of Ghosts
Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell
Night Will Fall
Mein Kampf
Tin Tan
The Reluctant Dragon
Disaster!
13th
The War on Democracy
Virunga
McQueen