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.
Directed by
Brett Morgen
Written by
Brett Morgen
Mark Ruffalo
Jerry Rubin (voice)
Liev Schreiber
William Kunstler (voice)
Jeffrey Wright
Bobby Seale (voice)
Nick Nolte
Thomas Foran (voice)
Amy Ryan
Anita Hoffman (voice)
Dylan Baker
David Dellinger / David Stahl (voice)
Hank Azaria
Abbie Hoffman / Allen Ginsberg (voice)
Roy Scheider
Judge Julius Hoffman (voice)
James Urbaniak
Rennie Davis / Richard Schultz (voice)
Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Paul Krassner (voice)
Catherine Curtin
Barbara Callender (voice)
Reg Rogers
Tom Hayden / Unidentified Yippie / Marshal 3 (voice)
Walter Cronkite
Self (archive footage)
Roger L. Jackson
Marshal 2 / Reporter 4 / Reporter 6 (voice)
Daniel Hagen
Bailiff (voice)
Ted Marcoux
Robert Murray (voice)
Chuck Montgomery
Lee Weiner (voice)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage)
Allen Ginsberg
Self (archive footage)
David Boat
Norman Mailer / Marshal 1 (voice)
Tom Hayden
Self (archive footage)
Abbie Hoffman
Self (archive footage)
Christopher Murney
Meany / Oklepek 1 / Reporter 1 (voice)
Debra Eisenstadt
Mary Ellen Dahl / Waitress (voice)
Jay Potter
Reporter 3 / Reporter 5 (voice)
Bobby Seale
Self (archive footage)
Jerry Rubin
Self (archive footage)
Graydon Carter
Paul Krassner
Self (archive footage)
Julián Rebolledo
Reporter 2 (voice) (as Julian Dean)
Richard J. Daley
Leonard Weinglass
Self (voice)
David Dellinger
Self (archive footage)
Lloyd Floyd
Robert Pierson / Arthur Aznavoorian / Police Officer (voice)