| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Movie Review

Chicago 10. Dir. by Brett Morgen. Prod. by Graydon Carter and Brett Morgen. Participant Productions and River Road Entertainment, 2007. 100 mins. (Roadside Attractions, http://www.roadsideattractions.com)

Mixing computer animation and archival footage, the documentarian Brett Morgen (who also directed The Kid Stays in the Picture [2002]) re-creates both the 1968 "battle of Chicago" and the trial the next year of the Chicago Seven, as the radicals accused of conspiracy to incite riot became known. The title of Chicago 10 reflects a comment by one of the radicals, Jerry Rubin, that the more common reference to the "Chicago Seven" wrongly omits defendant Bobby Seale as well as the two attorneys, William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass, who also received prison sentences that were eventually vacated. The film shifts back and forth between documentary footage and state-of-the-art animation, with the former re-creating the events in Chicago and the latter bringing to life the subsequent conspiracy trial. The animation is compelling and the words spoken by the participants in the film were drawn from court transcripts. For younger people and students unfamiliar with the events in Chicago and the ludicrous conspiracy trial that followed, the film could serve as an effective introduction; professional historians and those already familiar with this history will learn little or nothing but may well be entertained.

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