Abbie Hoffman Movies

  • 2009
    American Swing

    American Swing

    American Swing

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    Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.

    American Swing
  • 1989
    Heavy Petting

    Heavy Petting

    Heavy Petting

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    Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie...

    Heavy Petting
  • 2008
    Chicago 10

    Chicago 10

    Chicago 10

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    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...

    Chicago 10
  • 1970
    Prologue

    Prologue

    Prologue

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    This film tells the story of a young Montrealer who edits an underground newspaper with help from his female friend and a draft dodger from the...

    Prologue
  • 1968
    Yippie

    Yippie

    Yippie

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    The Youth International Party, whose members were commonly called Yippies, was a radically youth-oriented and countercultural revolutionary group...

    Yippie
  • 2018
    TVTV: Video Revolutionaries

    TVTV: Video Revolutionaries

    TVTV: Video Revolutionaries

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    A documentary about Top Value Television (TVTV), a band of merry video makers who, from 1972 to 1977, took the then brand-new portable video camera...

    TVTV: Video Revolutionaries
  • 1989
    Growing Up in America

    Growing Up in America

    Growing Up in America

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    Filmmaker Morley Markson shows Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and other '60s rebels, then and now in a follow up to his...

    Growing Up in America
  • 2011
    Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

    Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

    Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

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    From civil rights to the anti-war movement to the struggles of workers, folksinger Phil Ochs wrote topical songs that engaged his audiences in the...

    Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
  • 2020
    Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon

    Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon

    Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon

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    An exploration of the life and career of the Beatles superstar, with a look at the strange parallels between him and his killer Mark David Chapman.

    Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon
  • 1970
    Brand X

    Brand X

    Brand X

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    In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never paid him for any of the work he had done for him and...

    Brand X
  • 1971
    Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family

    Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family

    Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family

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    The title of this Canadian documentary may have some relation to Canadian Marshall McLuhan's theories. It combines interview with famous U.S....

    Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
  • 2019
    WBCN and the American Revolution

    WBCN and the American Revolution

    WBCN and the American Revolution

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    The amazing untold story of the radical underground radio station WBCN-FM set against the profound social, political and cultural changes of the...

    WBCN and the American Revolution
  • 1974
    The Lord of the Universe

    The Lord of the Universe

    The Lord of the Universe

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    He was the 16-year-old Guru Maharaj Ji and, as the Millennium approached, he promised to levitate the Huston Astrodome. It was the early Seventies...

    The Lord of the Universe
  • 1990
    My Dinner with Abbie

    My Dinner with Abbie

    My Dinner with Abbie

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    Ex flower child goes looking for revolutionary hero and finds a brilliant no-quitter with a good appetite.

    My Dinner with Abbie
  • 1968
    Last Summer Won't Happen

    Last Summer Won't Happen

    Last Summer Won't Happen

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    A critical yet sympathetic examination of the anti-war movement in New York City, shot in 1968, one year after the Summer of Love. The film traces...

    Last Summer Won't Happen
  • 1986
    The Last Debate

    The Last Debate

    The Last Debate

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    Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin were both on the leading edge of protest in the 1960’s. Rubin became an entrepreneur and the chief spokesman for...

    The Last Debate
  • 1968
    Emergency: The Living Theatre

    Emergency: The Living Theatre

    Emergency: The Living Theatre

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    a 32-minute color film by Gwen Brown, featuring precious footage of Living Theatre productions “Mysteries” and smaller pieces,...

    Emergency: The Living Theatre
  • 1970
    Mayday

    Mayday

    Mayday

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    In the spring of 1970, thousands of protesters descended on New Haven to demonstrate against the trial of Black Panther members for the murder of...

    Mayday
  • 1981
    My Name is Abbie

    My Name is Abbie

    My Name is Abbie

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    A countercultural icon, Hoffman is remembered as one of the greatest radicals of the civil rights and anti-war movements of the sixties. In this...

    My Name is Abbie