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Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family

5.3 84 mins Documentary   1971
Director(s): Morley Markson

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., the "Chicago Eight," etc.). Other figures of cultural interest from the time, including Alan Ginsberg and Buckminster Fuller, are interviewed or featured. The filmmaker indicates his belief that powerful forces in the U.S. government worked together to suppress American radicals. This view, widely disbelieved at the time, has since been confirmed.

Casts of Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family

Don Cox

as Self

Allen Ginsberg

as Self

Fred Hampton

as Self

Abbie Hoffman

as Self

Timothy Leary

as Self

John Lennon

as Self

Jerry Rubin

as Self

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