Growing Up in America

Growing Up in America (1988)

16 Apr 1989 • Documentary, History • 1h 30m
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What happened to the hippies, the yippies, the Black Panthers, the counter- culture kids who rocked the nation's boat in the 1960's? Are they still fighting their fight, have they been co-opted into the culture they fought to overthrow, or were they destroyed by the culture while they struggled? Morley Markson shows us archival footage of some of the leaders - Jery Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, Fred Hampton, John Sinclair, among others - as well as people like poet Allen Ginsburg and lawyer William Kunstler, who represented the Chicago 8 during that seminal trial in 1969 - and then interviews them watching the old footage, to find an answer those questions.

Morley Markson
Director

Writer
Don Cox, Allen Ginsberg, Fred Hampton Jr.
Starring

Language: English
Awards: 1 nomination
Country: United States, Canada
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7.5

IMDb (47 votes)
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