Richard J. Daley

For the last half of the 20th century, America was consumed by two struggles: the civil rights movement and the cold war. For 30 years, Hubert Humphrey stood at the center of both. As a soldier of the New Deal and the Great Society, he amassed one of the most prolific legislative records in senate history, sponsoring hundreds of billsfrom Medicare to the Peace Corps to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

American Revolution 2 commence par des images des manifestations politiques à la Convention démocratique de 1968 et de la réaction énergique du service de police de Chicago et de la Garde nationale. Enquêtant sur l'absence de présence afro-américaine lors des manifestations, les cinéastes suivent les membres de la section de Chicago du Black Panther Party alors qu'ils recherchent un terrain d'entente avec une variété de groupes militants blancs. Dans une scène, Panther Bobby Lee et des membres des Young Patriots, une communauté de militants blancs des Appalaches vivant dans le quartier Uptown de Chicago, s'organisent pour protester contre la brutalité policière. Les groupes apparemment disparates trouvent des objectifs sociaux et politiques communs qui surmontent les différences raciales - violence policière, pauvreté, manque d'emploi et mauvaises conditions de vie. Ce potentiel pour un mouvement politique inter-racial et interethnique est le rêve beau mais non réalisé du film.

Memories and home movies of numerous Chicagoans bring the 1940s and '50s alive, from early Chicago television to the patriotic spirit of the war years when everyone pulled together.

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 National Convention.

The Youth International Party, whose members were commonly called Yippies, was a radically youth-oriented and countercultural revolutionary group opposed to war and the status quo of American culture. Known for using theatrics and humor to advocate social change, several Yippies were notably on trial as the Chicago 7. Primarily consisting of footage from the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago which sparked massive demonstrations that were met by violence and hysteria caused by the police. This film also includes found newsreel footage as well as Pigasus - the pig the Yippies advanced as a candidate for President of the United States.

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.