Hit & Stay (2013)

Directed by

Skizz Cyzyk, Joe Tropea

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 39m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary covers the anti-Vietnam War protests by the Catonsville Nine and the Baltimore Four. It includes interviews with the activists themselves and the FBI agents who watched them. The film also connects their actions to later progressive movements.

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What happens

Hit & Stay is a 2013 documentary directed by Joe Tropea and Skizz Cyzyk. It looks at the actions of the Catonsville Nine and the Baltimore Four taken in protest of the Vietnam War, and the influence of these actions and the activists behind them on subsequent progressive political protests. The press labeled this group "the Catholic Left." The film contains interviews with many of the activists who took part in these actions, as well some of the F.B.I. agents who monitored them. It also contains contemporary commentary on the influence of these actions from such names as Bill Ayers, Noam Chomsky, Ramsey Clark, Amy Goodman, Howard Zinn, and Laura Whitehorn. Hit & Stay premiered at the 2013 Chicago Underground Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award. It made its Baltimore premiere at the Maryland Film Festival. The documentary made its premiere in the South at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival where it won the Best Documentary Feature award. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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