Documentary Description
Deftly charting the sweeping socio- political changes of the Sixties
that began with the Civil Rights movement and culminated with angry
protests against the U.S. war in Vietnam, REBELS WITH A CAUSE is told
through the eyes of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Begun
in 1960 with a handful of members and high ideals, SDS became a
nationally powerful antiwar organization with over 100,000 members. But
in 1970 the group began to disintegrate amidst internal conflict and
government counterintelligence crackdowns.
In the aftermath, some went militant as the ill-fated Weather
Underground; others channeled their activism through prominent careers
as journalists, politicians and professors. Mixing eloquent
contemporary testimony from SDS members such as writer/professor Todd
Gitlin, Senator Tom Hayden and NPR commentator Juan Gonzalez with
scintillating archival footage from the front lines of the movement,
Helen Garvy’s REBELS WITH A CAUSE chronicles the values, motivations
and actions of a generation that lost its innocence-and helped change
America.
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