Abbie Hoffman Movies

  • 1970
    Mayday

    Mayday

    Mayday

    01970HD

    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 susp...

    Mayday
  • 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 an...

    TVTV: Video Revolutionaries
  • 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 late-...

    WBCN and the American Revolution
  • 1989
    Heavy Petting

    Heavy Petting

    Heavy Petting

    5.61989HD

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

    Heavy Petting
  • 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
  • 1968
    Yippie

    Yippie

    Yippie

    5.11968HD

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

    Yippie
  • 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 Natio...

    Chicago 10
  • 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
    Emergency: The Living Theatre

    Emergency: The Living Theatre

    Emergency: The Living Theatre

    01968HD

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

    Emergency: The Living Theatre
  • 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. militant...

    Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
  • 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
  • 1970
    Brand X

    Brand X

    Brand X

    41970HD

    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
  • 1986
    The Last Debate

    The Last Debate

    The Last Debate

    01986HD

    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 Bab...

    The Last Debate
  • 1970
    Prologue

    Prologue

    Prologue

    01970HD

    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 Unite...

    Prologue
  • 1974
    The Lord of the Universe

    The Lord of the Universe

    The Lord of the Universe

    6.51974HD

    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 and...

    The Lord of the Universe
  • 1968
    Last Summer Won't Happen

    Last Summer Won't Happen

    Last Summer Won't Happen

    01968HD

    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 the...

    Last Summer Won't Happen
  • 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 19...

    Growing Up in America
  • 1981
    My Name is Abbie

    My Name is Abbie

    My Name is Abbie

    01981HD

    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 film,...

    My Name is Abbie