Tag: 1968

The ghost of Mexico City comes back to haunt Beijing

Stop me if you've heard this one before. An authoritarian one party state uses blunt military force to squash a popular uprising. Hundreds are killed or injured and the government fears that attempts to burnish its image abroad by holding the Olympic games will be tarnished...
May 1968
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40 Years After 1968: 'Where Has All the Rage Gone?'

As the U.S. death toll strikes its solemn bell of 4,000 soldiers killed in Iraq, with countless more Iraqis killed in the process, I have been asking myself this same question of late: where has all the rage gone?...
CHICAGO 10 - OFFICIAL TRAILER
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CHICAGO 10 - OFFICIAL TRAILER

Mixing animation with archival footage, CHICAGO 10 explores the build-up to and unraveling of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial of 8 activists set up as scapegoats by The Government of the 1968 Democratic Convention...
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