Growing Up in America (1988) full movie
What happened to the hippies, the yippies, the Black Panthers, the counter- culture kids who rocked the nation’s boat in the 1960’s? Are they still fighting their fight, have they been co-opted into the culture they fought to overthrow, or were they destroyed by the culture while they struggled? Morley Markson shows us archival footage of some of the leaders – Jery Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, Fred Hampton, John Sinclair, among others – as well as people like poet Allen Ginsburg and lawyer William Kunstler, who represented the Chicago 8 during that seminal trial in 1969 – and then interviews them watching the old footage, to find an answer those questions.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Morley Markson
Actors: Allen Ginsberg, Don Cox, Fred Hampton Jr.
Country: Canada, United States
