• Director: Brett Morgen
  • Release Year: 2007
  • Production Country: United States
  • Language: English

Chicago 10

Description

Violence gradually escalates at the rallies held during the 1968 Democratic National Convention to protest President Lyndon B. Johnson's policies on the Vietnam War. The 20,000 police and National Guardsmen called in to keep the peace exacerbate the emotions and anger of the 15,000 or so protestors until full scale rioting breaks out—but only 8 people were ever charged, all of them from among the protestors.

Themes

1968 Democratic National Convention, Democracy, Civil disobedience, Social justice, Social justice movements, Political history, Crime, Police brutality, Military history, Vietnam War (1961 – 1975), Race relations, Minorities, Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 – 1973), Political oppression, Conspiracies, Primary sources