Movies: Yippie

  • 2008
    Chicago 10

    Chicago 10 (2008)

    Chicago 10

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    Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention....

    Chicago 10
  • 1968
    Yippie

    Yippie (1968)

    Yippie

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    The Youth International Party, whose members were commonly called Yippies, was a radically youth-oriented and countercultural revolutionary group opposed to war and the status quo of American culture. Known for using theatrics and humor to advocate ...

    Yippie
  • 1989
    Growing Up in America

    Growing Up in America (1989)

    Growing Up in America

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    Filmmaker Morley Markson shows Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and other '60s rebels, then and now in a follow up to his 1971 film "Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family."...

    Growing Up in America
  • 1971
    Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family

    Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family (1971)

    Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family

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    The title of this Canadian documentary may have some relation to Canadian Marshall McLuhan's theories. It combines interview with famous U.S. militants of the '60s, such as Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, with reenactments of their Chicago trials (i.e...

    Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
  • 1986
    The Last Debate

    The Last Debate (1986)

    The Last Debate

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    Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin were both on the leading edge of protest in the 1960’s. Rubin became an entrepreneur and the chief spokesman for the Baby Boom generation. Hoffman remained active in environmental issues and grass roots politics, maintai...

    The Last Debate
  • 1990
    My Dinner with Abbie

    My Dinner with Abbie (1990)

    My Dinner with Abbie

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    Ex flower child goes looking for revolutionary hero and finds a brilliant no-quitter with a good appetite....

    My Dinner with Abbie
  • 1981
    My Name is Abbie

    My Name is Abbie (1981)

    My Name is Abbie

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    A countercultural icon, Hoffman is remembered as one of the greatest radicals of the civil rights and anti-war movements of the sixties. In this film, which documents the first interview he gave in 1980 when he decided to reveal his identity after sp...

    My Name is Abbie