Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb
Directed by Daniel Joseph Watkins, Ajax Phillips
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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 & crew
Hunter S. ThompsonSelf (archive footage)Explore the crew
- Director
- Daniel Joseph Watkins
- Director
- Ajax Phillips
- Director of Photography
- Karl Wolfgang
- Producer
- Mimi Polk Gitlin
- Producer
- Angus Wall
- Editor
- Tony Prikryl
- Editor
- Patrick Welch
- Director of Photography
- Lucian Reed
- Original Music Composer
- Gustavo Santaolalla