Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987)

Directed by

Jeremy Kagan

Genre

tv movie, drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 58m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film recreates the trial of eight activists charged with conspiracy after protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The courtroom scenes use the actual trial transcripts and have characters sometimes address the camera directly.

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What happens

Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 is a 1987 HBO original courtroom drama made for television and directed, written and produced by Jeremy Kagan. The film tells the story of the 1969-70 trial of the Chicago Eight (later known as the Chicago Seven), and is adapted from the trial transcripts and a play The Chicago Conspiracy Trial by Ron Sossi and Frank Condon. Jason Bailey wrote for The New York Times that "the attorneys, defendants and judge address the camera as if it were the jury; all of the dialogue is drawn from the original transcripts and, aside from superimposed flashes of archival footage and brief interview snippets from the real participants, all of the action is confined to the courtroom." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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