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Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb (2020)
Directed by Daniel Joseph Watkins, Ajax Phillips
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
Documentary · 1h 30m
Hunter S. Thompson went to the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago as a journalist and returned home disgusted, yet motivated by what he’d just seen: violently suppressed protests, riots, corrupt politicians, and abusive cops. Back in Aspen, he finds more of the same. The local police and sheriff’s departments are targeting young people, harassing and charging them with absurd crimes and trying to push them out of town. Hunter decides he has to do something to change the police brutality that has become the norm.
Cast
Hunter S. Thompson
Crew
- Director
- Daniel Joseph Watkins, Ajax Phillips
- Director of Photography
- Karl Wolfgang, Lucian Reed
- Original Music Composer
- Gustavo Santaolalla
- Editor
- Tony Prikryl, Patrick Welch
- Producer
- Mimi Polk Gitlin, Angus Wall
Details
- Release date
- 2020-10-23
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America