Bibliograph

1971, a film by Johanna Hamilton ; a production of Maximum Pictures LLC and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) ; Maximum Pictures & Fork Films present ; in association with Big Mouth Productions, Motto Pictures, Ford Foundation JustFilms, Candescent Films ; directed and produced by Johanna Hamilton ; produced by Marilyn Ness, Katy Chevigny ; written by Johanna Hamilton, Gabriel Rhodes

Type

Label

1971, a film by Johanna Hamilton ; a production of Maximum Pictures LLC and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) ; Maximum Pictures & Fork Films present ; in association with Big Mouth Productions, Motto Pictures, Ford Foundation JustFilms, Candescent Films ; directed and produced by Johanna Hamilton ; produced by Marilyn Ness, Katy Chevigny ; written by Johanna Hamilton, Gabriel Rhodes

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

1971

Medium

DVD

Oclc number

923872807

Responsibility statement

a film by Johanna Hamilton ; a production of Maximum Pictures LLC and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) ; Maximum Pictures & Fork Films present ; in association with Big Mouth Productions, Motto Pictures, Ford Foundation JustFilms, Candescent Films ; directed and produced by Johanna Hamilton ; produced by Marilyn Ness, Katy Chevigny ; written by Johanna Hamilton, Gabriel Rhodes

Runtime

Summary

On March 8, 1971, eight ordinary citizens broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, a town just outside of Philadelphia, took hundreds of secret files, and shared them with the public. In doing so, they uncovered the FBI's vast and illegal regime of spying and intimidation of Americans exercising their First Amendment rights. Despite conducting one of the most thorough investigations in its history, the FBI never solved the mystery of the break-in

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Nineteen seventy-one1971, the year a few ordinary citizens took on the FBIYear a few ordinary citizens took on the FBI

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