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Chicago 10
Promotional movie poster for the film
Directed by	Brett Morgen
Produced by	Laura Bickford William Pohlad Peter Schlessel Jeff Skoll Ricky Strauss Diane Weyermann
Written by	Brett Morgen
Starring	Hank Azaria Dylan Baker David Dellinger
Music by	Jeff Danna
Editing by	Stuart Levy
Release date(s)	January 18, 2007 (Sundance Film Festival)
Country	United States
Language	English
Gross revenue	$177,490
Followed by	Chicago 10: Days to Go Chicago 10: Mean Green

Chicago 10: Speak Your Peace (2007) is a partly-animated film written and directed by Brett Morgen that tells the story of the Chicago Eight. The film features the voices of Hank Azaria, Dylan Baker, Nick Nolte, Mark Ruffalo, Roy Scheider, Liev Schreiber, James Urbaniak, and Jeffrey Wright in an animated reenactment of the trial based on transcripts and rediscovered audio recordings, making the film fall in the animated documentary genre. It also contains archive footage of David Dellinger, Abbie Hoffman, William Kunstler, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, and Leonard Weinglass, and of the protest and riot itself. The title is drawn from a quote by Rubin, who said, "Anyone who calls us the Chicago Seven is a racist. Because you're discrediting Bobby Seale. You can call us the Chicago Eight, but really we're the Chicago Ten, because our two lawyers went down with us." [1]

The film premiered January 18, 2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. It later premiered at Silverdocs, the AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival in Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland. The film opened in limited release in the United States on February 29, 2008.^[1] It was aired nationally on the PBS program, Independent Lens, on October 22, 2008.

Critical reception

The film received generally favorable reviews from critics. As of March 1, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 71% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 42 reviews.^[2] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 69 out of 100, based on 19 reviews.^[3]

References

External links

• Chicago 10 at the Internet Movie Database
• CHICAGO 10 site for Independent Lens on PBS
• Chicago 10 at Rotten Tomatoes
• Chicago 10 at Metacritic
• Chicago 10 at Box Office Mojo
• Chicago 10 at Allmovie
• Chicago 10 at Sundance.org
• NPR's Fresh Air interviews Brett Morgen