Netflix is making The Trial of the Chicago 7 free on YouTube for 48 hours

[Ohio Joe]

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/18/22289576/netflix-trial-of-the-chicago-7-free-youtube-limited-time

Like any film of this type, it is not completely accurate but it really does a fine job.

[elleng]

1. THANKS!

[Merlot]

2. Really enjoyed this movie - highly recommend it.

Actors were great. One of the actors said all his dialogue was taken directly from in court transcripts.

[Brother Buzz]

9. Pleas, please tell me Sacha Baron Cohen's dialogue was taken directly from in court transcripts.

[SeattleVet]

10. Yes, I seem to remember that this was from the transcript.

I read the book many years ago (shortly after the trial, while I was still in high school), and this was included.

I'll have to watch the movie - I hope the put in the part with the birthday cake!

[dhill926]

3. thanks for this....

I was a teenager in Chicagoland during this time, and really want to see it...I remember it well. The defendants were rock stars in my social group...

[COL Mustard]

4. That Was A Long Time Ago

Can't we just move on???

[zanana1]

16. We have to learn the history of struggle and peaceful protest.

[mopinko]

11. so was i. loved it.

tho i was a bit young to hang w the hippies at the time, i did find weed the next year. and out in the burbs, so i was aware, but not consumed.

i rly loved it. riveting. i somehow missed that clark and hampton were murdered during the trial, because of the trial.
and i knew the judge was nuts, but i didnt know HOW nuts.

[Yavin4]

5. I came across this clip from the show Newsroom

Blaming the Hippies was always a Sorkin thing:

[TexasBushwhacker]

12. Then Sorkin needs a history lesson

The John Birch Society was around way before hippies.

[Yavin4]

13. It's a very lazy argument by Sorkin.

That Hippies caused the backlash against Progressivism throughout the 70s and 80s.

The "backlash" was well funded by millionaires giving money to think tanks and seeding their pro-corporate, racist, sexist, right wing propaganda into the mainstream media. Shows like "The McLaughlin Group" were a prime example of this. It was funded by General Electric.

[TexasBushwhacker]

14. And one of the founders of the JB Society was Fred Koch

As conservative as he was, William Buckley criticized the JBers. My parents were Goldwater Republicans and they thought they were nuts.

I'm sure Sorkin would say Jeff Daniels' character was a moderate Republican and would probably have those views.

[consider_this]

6. Very enjoyable...

and makes you just shake your head with WTF moments. Saw it on Netflix and recommend!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

7. Very good film....

Stellar cast too.

Eddie Remayne as Tom Hayden
Sacha Baron Cohen as Abbie Hoffman
Mark Ryland as William Kuntsler.

[The Blue Flower]

8. It was very well done

I really enjoyed it. Great directing and performances.

[IcyPeas]

15. I couldn't find it.

All i see are little clips of it and trailers? I tried the link in the Verge article too.