Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb

8.3

/10

1h 30mDocumentary

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.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 cop... Read more

Starring Hunter S. Thompson, Bob Braudis, Joe Edwards, Alex Sweetman, Ed Bastian, Travis Fulton

It's a documentary movie, and has a rating of 8.3 out of 10 from Imdb which is very high for this kind of movie.